The World's last mysteries
Edition: 2nd ed, first rev.
Publisher: Reader's Digest
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780909486617
Subjects: Antiquities; Ancient Civilization; Prehistoric peoples; Civilisation ancienne
Description: "Archaeology - the study of antiquity from whatever evidence can be found - gained a double aura of science and romance. As men began to probe and question their past, often hoping to find clues to the future, they increasingly came to realize that a wealth of civilisations had preceded them. The probings of science began to replace the myths with reason. And yet many of the discoveries made by science proved to be so extraordinary and so enigmatic that even now many new finds are posing more questions than answers." -- Introduction.
Table of contents: title: In search of fabled lands; title: Voyage to Atlantis; title: The search for Eldorado, land of gold; title: The land of the Queen of Sheba; title: Who really discovered the New World?; title: Age of the megaliths; title: Strange stones of western Europe; title: Soul-statues of Corsica; title: The secrets of Stonehenge; title: The giants of Easter Island; title: Cities of mystery; title: Teotihuacán, city of the gods; title: The lost empires of the Indus Valley; title: The silent stones of Tiahuanaco; title: The world's first cities; title: The last refuge of the Incas; title: Secrets of the pyramids; title: The men who built the Tower of Babel; title: Pyramids in the Americas; title: Inside the pyramids of the pharaohs; title: Vanished peoples, forgotten places; title: When the Sahara was green; title: The Scythians, fierce horsemen of the steppes; title: Zimbabwe, Africa's lost civilisation; title: Splendour in the jungle at Angkor; title: The Olmecs, a race of precursors; title: The magnificents realm of the Mayas; title: Enigmatic messages of the Nazcas; title: Did a black hole hit Siberia?; title: Gazatteer of mysterious sites around the world.