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Let There Be Light
Sarah Wisseman

Amazon, 2006

I wrote this story to deepen the background of my favorite protagonist, archaeologist and museum curator Lisa Donahue. Lisa works in a fictional museum in Boston that bears a strong resemblance to a real one in Illinois where I worked for four years. In an overcrowded attic museum with too many doors and not enough staff, strange things happen on a regular basis.

The Virtual Mummy
Sarah U. Wisseman

University of Illinois Press, 2002

The Virtual Mummy is a thoroughly readable introduction to the nondestructive techniques used by contemporary researchers to analyze the artifacts and culture of ancient Egypt. It tells the captivating story of the "virtual unwrapping" of an Egyptian mummy and the interdisciplinary project that allowed researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to investigate the person inside by way of an autopsy performed by computer. The ...

Bound for Eternity (Lisa Donahue Archaeological Mysteries)

4 reviews, 2005

A mummy and murder in a museum
Lisa Donahue, museum curator, returns the new Egyptian mummy after having it x-rayed at a local clinic. She discovers the bloody body of her colleague, Marion, in the mummy's empty case. Lisa is a widowed young mother. She has to juggle her job and being a mother. Now she's taking on sleuthing to figure out who killed Marion and why. Marion had mentioned to Lisa that she felt that ...

Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials
Sarah Wisseman

Routledge, 1993

Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials presents solutions to questions of dating, composition, provenence, and technology through the application of instrumental techniques to archaeological materials. The book also examines the reconstruction of early environments through analysis of bone and plant remains, the replication of artifacts to better understand ancient technologies through experimental archaeology, and the authentication ...

The Dead Sea Codex

2 reviews
Sarah Wisseman

Hard Shell Word Factory, 2006

Ancient manuscripts and murder
Lisa Donahue is in Israel examining some ceramic object for loan to Philadelphia's University Museum where she is curator. She is also an archaeologist, and is very interested in some ancient papyrus she discovers. She runs into her ex-boyfriend Greg Manzur. They met seven years ago when she was here during her junior year to study archaeology. Now she's engaged to a dr. She doesn't want ...

mysteries

Moscow Rules
Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
Tribute
Rules of Deception
The Last Patriot: A Thriller

eternity

From Here to Eternity
Driven by Eternity: Making Your Life Count Today & Forever
Money, Possessions, and Eternity
Eternity in Their Hearts
Edge of Eternity

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