|aGods, graves, and scholars : |bthe story of archaeology / |cby C.W. Ceram [pseud.] Translated from the German by E.B. Garside
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|aNew York : |bKnopf, |c1951
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|axi, 426, xvi p : |billus., ports., maps ; |c22 cm
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|aBook of the Statues: Queen of Naples: From her garden to Pompeii--Winckelmann: Birth of a science--Interlude: Why search for the past?--Schliemann (I): Merchant digs for Trojan gold--Schliemann (II): Mask of Agamemnon--Schliemann (III): Conflict with the scholars--Schliemann (IV): Mycenae, Tiryns, and Crete--Evans: Crete and the Minotaur--Book of the pyramids: Napolean: In the land of the Pharaohs--Champollion (I): Mystery of the Rosetta Stone--Champollion (II): Treason and Hieroglyphics--Belzoni, Lepsius, and Mariette: Life in Ancient Egypt--Petrie: Tomb of Amenemhet--Robbers in the valley of the Kings--Mummies--Carter: Tomb of Tutankhamen--Carter: Curse of the Pharaohs--Book of the towers: Botta finds Nineveh--Grotefend: Schoolteacher deciphers cuneiform--Rawlinson: Nebuchadnezzar's dictionary in clay--Layard: Dilettante outwits a Pasha--George Smith: Story of the flood--Koldewey: Tower of Babel--Woolley: Oldest culture in the world--Book of the temples: Cortes (I): Treasure of Moctezuma--Cortes (II): Beheaded culture--John Lloyd Stephens buys a jungle city--Intermezzo--Mystery of the abandoned Mayan cities--Edward Herbert Thompson: Chichen-Itza and the sacred well--Aztecs, Mayas, and Toltecs: Whence did they come?--Books that cannot yet be written: New searches in Old Empires