{"product_id":"9781601630315","title":"Unearthing Ancient America: The Lost Sagas of Conquerors, Castaways, and Scoundrels","description":"\u003cbr\u003eDoes Colorado's Grand Canyon hide an ancient city found by a Smithsonian Institution photographer?\u003cp\u003eDid the Vikings beat Columbus to the New World using a fiber-optic navigational instrument?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho built a colossal water reservoir in Iowa long before the first European settlers arrived?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat secret have the \"Giants of the California Desert\" preserved for more than a thousand years?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are just some of the intriguing questions posed and answered by expert researchers in \u003ci\u003eUnearthing Ancient America\u003c\/i\u003e. They go on to tackle a broad variety of archaeological enigmas shunned as too heretical for consideration by conventional scholars--a Roman figurine found off the New Jersey coast, North African gold in Illinois from a long-vanished kingdom, an Egyptian knife removed from a centuries-old tree in California, a fifth century Christian church in Connecticut, a prehistoric harbor underwater in the Bahamas, Easter Island's cultural connections with pre-modern Japan, and voyagers to Maine from Stone Age Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnearthing Ancient America\u003c\/i\u003e contains a wealth of fresh, occasionally suppressed evidence documenting the tremendous impact made on our continent by overseas visitors hundreds and even thousands of years before Columbus. The disclosures presented here re-write the prehistory of our country and provide a dramatic panorama of the past you never imagined before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe distinguished list of contributing writers to \u003ci\u003eUnearthing Ancient America\u003c\/i\u003e includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003eWayne May, founder and publisher of Ancient American magazine\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eGunnar Thompson, PhD, author of American Discovery\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eNobuhiro Yoshida, language professor from the University of Kyushu\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWilliam Donato, the world's leading authority on the \"Bimini Road\"\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eDavid Hatcher Childress, founder of The World Explorers Club and head of Adventures Unlimited Press.\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"Career Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059800916208,"sku":"9781601630315","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781601630315_p0.jpg?v=1763824795","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781601630315","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}