The silent past
Subtitle: mysterious and forgotten cultures of the world.
By: Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient
Notes: Translation of: Rätselhafte Kulturen.
Table of contents: title: Birds of passage; title: The walls of Jericho; title: Good living in Ugarit; title: The world's first alphabet; title: Tyre and Sidon; title: Queen of the seas; title: The silent stones of Malta; title: Their faith moved mountains; title: The megaliths of Morbihan; title: Mari, the wonder city; title: Island of 8,000 towers; title: A pre-christian Madonna; title: Linear B; title: Life in the Mycenaean age; title: The cult of Apollo; title: The Delphic oracle; title: The Pythia replies; title: Olympias, Zeus and Alexander; title: Latest news of Dodona; title: Atlantis, fact or fiction; title: City beneath the sands; title: The civilization of Tartessus; title: The Guanches; title: The mask of T'aot'ieh; title: A man named Siddhartha; title: Gandhara and the Buddha image; title: The cave temples of Tun-huang; title: The silk road; title: The treasure of the Oxus; title: The Scythians; title: Company for the king; title: Kings, concubines and horses; title: King Solomon's furnaces; title: In quest of Ophir; title: The bronzes of Benin; title: River of a thousand eyes; title: Men of Maize; title: Cities in the jungle; title: Tikal, the enigma; title: Behold, all things are become new.