Hands on the Past
Subtitle: Pioneer Archaeologists Tell Their Own Story
By: Edited and introduced by Kurt W. Marek (C. W. Ceram).
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York (New York), USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Archaeology
Notes: First edition in the USA.
First published in London, Egland, as *The World of Archaeology* (Thames & Hudson, 1966).
Bibliography: p. [421]-425.
Table of contents: title: Foreword/ C.W. Ceram; title: The ideal archaelogist/ C.L. Woolley; title: How to buy antiquities/ C.L. Woolley; title: How to steal antiquities/ C.M. Lerici; title: A strange bargain/ C.L. Woolley; title: Leagalized art robbery; title: The complete forger/ C.L. Woolley; title: The Olympia convention; title: The foundation of the British Museum/ H. Sloane; title: A troublesome legacy/ H. Walpole; title: The controversial bequest of Lord Elgin; title: The treasure of Priam/ H. Schliemann; title: A stolen treasure/ H. Schliemann; title: A Mycenaen ruler/ H. Schliemann; title: Winkelmann in Herculaneum; title: The plaster corpses of Pompeii/ A. Goldsmidt; title: The discovery of the 'Venus de Milo'/ C. Tarral; title: The charioteer of Delphi; title: The discovery of the Hermes of Praxiteles/ E. Curtius; title: The rebuilding of the Stoa/ P. Mackendrick; title: The London Mithraeum/ R.L.S. Bruce-Mitford; title: Traces of the Ethruscans/ G. Dennis; title: The bull of Minos/ A.J. Evans; title: Reconstruction work at Knossos/ A.J. Evans; title: Ventris deciphers the Cretan script/ W. Taylour; title: The tourist and the monuments/ A.F. Mariette; title: Excavations in Egypt/ J.L. Burckhardt; title: A visit to Thebes/ D.V. Denon; title: The opening of a pyramid/ G.B. Belzoni; title: A cache of mummies at Thebes/ G.B. Belzoni; title: The temple of Abu Simbel/ J.L. Burckhardt; title: Coffee at Abu Simbel/ A. Edwards; title: Appeal by Mr V. Veronese; title: A hoard of royal mummies/ G.C. Maspero; title: A false interpretation of the hieroglyphs/ A. Kircher; title: How the Rosette Stone came to the British Museum/ T.H. Turner; title: Champollion deciphers the hieroglyphs; title: A fantastic interpretation of the Great Pyramid/ C.P. Smyth; title: The underwater tomb/ W.F. Petrie; title: The discovery of the Amarna tablets/ E.A. Budge; title: Tutankhamen/ H. Carter; title: The golden coffin/ H. Carter; title: The buried pyramid/ Z. Goneim; title: A second solution to the cuneiform script/ H.C. Rawlinson; title: Was Babylon here?/ C.J. Rich; title: The walls of Babylon/ R. Koldewey; title: A curious sculpture/ R. Koldewey; title: Problems at the excavation of Nineveh/ P.E. Botta; title: Excavations at Nimrud/ A.H. Layard; title: Discoveries and alarms/ A.H. Layard; title: The Gilgamesh Epic is found/ G. Smith; title: Early technical achievements/ H.V. Hilprecht; title: The royal graves of Ur/ C.L. Woolley; title: Digging up pergamon/ C. Humann; title: The discovery of the Hamah stones/ W. Wright; title: To boghazköy!/ H. Winckler; title: Hrozný deciphers the Hittite cuneiform/ L. Matous; title: Excavations at the Black mountain/ H. Bossert; title: The royal residence on the 'River of Nymphs'/ F.K. Dörner; title: The discovery of Ugarit/ C.F. Schaeffer; title: Solomon's foundries/ N. Glueck; title: The dead sea scrolls/ J.M. Allegro; title: The pyramid of Cholula/ A. Von Humboldt; title: Travels in the Yucatan/ J.M. Waldeck; title: The purchase of a city/ J.L. Stephens; title: The palace at Palenque/ J.L. Stephens; title: The elephant in America?/ G. Elliot Smith; title: The temple pyramid of Tepoxtlan/ E. Seler; title: A royal tomb at Palenque/ A. Ruz; title: Machu Picchu, the sacred city/ H. Bingham; title: The bridge of San Luis Rey/ V.M. Von Hagen; title: A problem of Tihuanacu/ A Posnansky; title: Archaeology from the air/ O.G. Crawford; title: The blue museum/ J.-Y. Cousteau; title: Atomic physics in archaeology/ T.G. Bibby; title: The Lerici periscope/ C.M. Laericic; title: Photogrammetry; title: Computer decipherment?; title: List of Sources; title: Index