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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A dead emperor guarded by his army for 2,000 years... One day in 1974, a group of farmers in rural China found a life-size clay statue of a man's head buried deep in a field. When government archaeologists inspected the area, they discovered that beneath the ground were more than eight thousand life-size clay soldiers, each one with a unique face. In nearby chambers, they unearthed clay horses, carefully preserved swords, bronze statues, and other...
2) Pompeii
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Describes the evacuation of Pompeii and Herculaneum--destroyed by a volcano in A.D. 79--in the 1700s, and discusses the conflicts among the excavation leaders, the strategies they used in their work on the site, and the discoveries that they made.
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