The World of Archaeology
Subtitle: The Pioneers Tell Their Own Story
By: Edited and introduced by C. W. Ceram.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 1966
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Archaeology.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [421]-424.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / 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 / J. J. Winkelmann; 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 Etruscans / 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. Matouš; 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. Lerici; title: Photogrammetry; title: Computer decipherment?