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Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay

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Motel of the Mysteries

Paperback – Illustrated, October 11, 1979

David Macaulay

HarperCollins · Paperback · October 11, 1979

Reading lane: Archaeology for Kids

It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985.

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Themes: Girls, Boys, Teen.Reading lane: Archaeology for Kids and Haunted & Unexplained Sites.Publisher: HarperCollins.

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Authors
David Macaulay
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
October 11, 1979
Format
Paperback
Theme
Archaeology for Kids · Haunted & Unexplained Sites
Reading lane
Archaeology for Kids

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It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly t...

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It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.

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