Title: The mute stones speak : the story of archaeology in Italy /
Authors: MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan, 1914-1998.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1960
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) Greece; Italy Antiquities.
Contents: Prehistoric Italy -- The Etruscans -- Early Rome -- Roman colonies in Italy (Ostia, Alba Fucens, Cosa) -- Nabobs as builders: Sulla, Pompey, Caesar -- Augustus: buildings as propaganda -- Hypocrite, madman, fool, and knave -- The victims of Vesuvius (Pompeii) -- Flavian Rome (the Colosseum, the Arch of Titus) -- Trajan: port, forum, market, column -- An emperor-architect: Hadrian -- Roman engineering -- Caesar and Christ.