C.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the ridicule of the learned world, he actually unearths the remains of the ancient city of Troy. We share the excitement of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter as they first glimpse the riches of Tutankhamen's tomb, of George Smith when he found the ancient clay tablets that contained the records of the Biblical Flood. We rediscover the ruined splendors of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the wonders of the ancient wold; of Chichen Itza, the abandoned pyramids of the Maya: and the legendary Labyrinth of tile Minotaur in Crete. Here is much of the history of civilization and the stories of the men who rediscovered it.
Chapter 1. The Queen of Naples: From Her Garden to Pompeii
Chapter 2. Winckelmann: The Birth of a Science
Chapter 3. Interlude: Why Search for the Past?
Chapter 4. Schliemann (I): A Merchant Digs for Trojan Gold
Chapter 5. Schliemann (II): The Mask of Agamemnon
Chapter 6. Schliemann (III): Conflict with the Scholars
Chapter 7. Schliemann (IV): Mycenæ, Tiryns, and Crete
Chapter 8. Evans: Crete and the Minotaur
Chapter 9. Napoleon: In the Land of the Pharaohs
Chapter 10. Champollion (I): The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone
Chapter 11. Champollion (II): Treason and Hieroglyphics
Chapter 12. Beizoni, Lepsius, and Mariette: Life in Ancient Egypt
Chapter 13. Petrie: The Tomb of Amenemhet
Chapter 14. Robbers in the Valley of the Kings
Chapter 16. Carter: The Tomb of Tutankhamen
Chapter 17. Carter: The Curse of the Pharaohs
Chapter 18. Botta Finds Nineveh
Chapter 19. Grotefend: A Schoolteacher Deciphers Cuneiform
Chapter 20. Rawlinson: Nebuchadnezzar’s Dictionary in Clay
Chapter 21. Layard: A Dilettante Outwits a Pasha
Chapter 22. George Smith: The Story of the Flood
Chapter 23. Koldewey: The Tower of Babel
Chapter 24. Woolley: The Oldest Culture in the World
Chapter 25. Cortés (I): The Treasure of Moctezuma
Chapter 26. Cortés (II): The Beheaded Culture
Chapter 27. John Lloyd Stephens Buys a Jungle City
Chapter 29. The Mystery of the Abandoned Mayan Cities
Chapter 30. Edward Herbert Thompson: Chiché-Itzá and the Sacred Well
Chapter 31. Aztecs, Mayas, and Toltecs: Whence Did They Come?
Chapter 32. New Searches in Old Empires
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES, BIBLIOGRAPHY
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