Have you ever heard of "experimental archaeology"? Follow Sam Kean through different time periods and cultures to learn how scientists, historians, and other professionals are learning about the past by recreating some of what they have only read about. Using all five senses, they make mummies, create their own weapons and go hunting and then prepare their kills, and try to actually experience what life was like in the past. A teacher and her students actually build a Roman road! In alternate chapters of fiction, each time period is brought to life by story.
Not all readers will be interested in every chapter so it is easy to skip around. Ancient Egypt? Viking life? Early Alaska? Even South American cultures? They are all here. This is one book that is NOT boring and learning something you did not already know is guaranteed!
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