Edition |
[1st ed.] |
Description |
318 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Exploring the valley of the kings / Giovanni Belzoni -- The cemetery of the sacred bulls / Auguste Mariette -- A windfall of royal mummies / Gaston Maspero -- The tell el-Amarna tablets / Wallis budge -- A "Missing link" of the pyramids / Flinders Petrie -- Manuscripts from the sands of Egypt / Bernard Grenfell -- The tomb of Tutankhamen / Howard Carter -- The huge mounds of Assyria / Austen Layard -- Climbing after cuneiform / Henry Rawlinson -- To nineveh for the daily telegraph / George Smith -- The graves of the kings of Ur / Leonard Wolley -- Older than Hammurabi's code / Samuel Noah Kramer -- The oldest alphabet / Claude Schaeffer -- King Solomon's Pittsburgh / Nelson Glueck -- The dead sea scrolls / Millar Burrows -- Where Christ may have studied / Lankester Harding -- Unearthing Troy / Heinrich Schliemann -- The capital of the hittites / Hugo Winckler -- Dredging for Diana's treasure / David Hogarth -- The palace of minos / Arthur Evans -- Deciphering Europe's oldest script / Michael Ventris |
Subject |
Middle East -- Antiquities.
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Middle East. |
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Antiquities. |
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