Describes, in simple text and illustrations, archaelogy and the work of an archaeologist.

Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...

"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...

New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton considers entering alternative medicine and makes contact with two former college classmates, including an archaeologist who is digging beneath Saint Peter's and a bishop who would suppress the archaeologist'sfindings.

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels. The Fargos find themselves pitted against a group of treasure hunters, a cunning Russian...

Callie and Nick embark on a dangerous adventure after their archaeologist parents are kidnapped on a Greek island, and they battle deadly tombs, a lion-headed monster, and the schemes of a psychotic millionaire while trying to obtain a Mycenaean treasure that could cover their parents' ransom.

After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza, and Dr. Erin Granger must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines.

As young archaeologist Will Burrows continues to search for his lost father in the strange underground world he has discovered beneath the city of London, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.