Gods, Graves and Scholars : The Story of Archaeology

by: Ceram, C.W.

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Gods, graves & scholars : the story of archaeology

Author: C. W. Ceram

xiv, 441, xiv pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Gods, graves & scholars : the story of archaeology / C.W. Ceram ; translated from the German by E.B. Garside and Sophie Wilkins.

C.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the ridicule of the learned world, he actually unearths the remains of the ancient city of Troy. We share the excitement of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter as they first glimpse the riches of Tutankhamen's tomb, of George Smith when he found the ancient clay tablets that contained the records of the Biblical Flood. We rediscover the ruined splendors of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the wonders of the ancient wold; of Chichen Itza, the abandoned pyramids of the Maya: and the legendary Labyrinth of tile Minotaur in Crete. Here is much of the history of civilization and the stories of the men who rediscovered it.

Contents:
I. The book of the Statues: Pompeii, Troy, Mycenae, Crete
The Queen of Naples: From her garden to Pompeii
Winckelmann: Birth of a science
Interlude: Why search for the past?
Schliemann (I): Merchant digs for Trojan gold
Schliemann (II): Mask of Agamemnon
Schliemann (III): Conflict with the scholars
Schliemann (IV): Mycenae, Tiryns, and Crete
Evans: Crete and the Minotaur
II. The book of the pyramids: The empires of Eypt
Napolean: In the land of the Pharaohs
Champollion (I): Mystery of the Rosetta Stone
Champollion (II): Treason and hieroglyphics
Belzoni, Lepsius, and Mariette: Life in Ancient Egypt
Petrie: Tomb of Amenemhet
Robbers in the valley of the Kings
Mummies
Carter: Tomb of Tutankhamen
Carter: Curse of the Pharaohs
III. The book of the towers: The kingdoms of Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumeria
Botta finds Nineveh
Grotefend: A schoolteacher deciphers cuneiform
Rawlinson: Nebuchadnezzar's dictionary in clay
Layard: Dilettante outwits a pasha
George Smith: The story of the flood
Koldewey: The Tower of Babel
Woolley: The oldest culture in the world
IV. The book of the temples: The empires of the Aztecs, the Mayas, and the toltecs
Cortés (I): The treasure of Moctezuma
Cortés (II): The beheaded culture
John Lloyd Stephens buys a jungle city
Intermezzo
The mystery of the abandoned Mayan cities
Edward Herbert Thompson: Chichén-Itzá and the sacred well
Aztecs, Mayas, and Toltecs: Whence did they come?
V. Books that cannot yet be written
New searches in Old Empires
Chronological tables
Bibliography
Index

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• ISBN-13: 9789068312164 / 978-90-6831-216-4
• ISBN-03: 9068312162 / 90-6831-216-2
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by: Lange, K.

• Gesellschaft fur Wissenschaftliches Lichtbild M.B.H., Munchen, 1951

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Gods, Graves and Scholars : The Story of Archaeology

by: Ceram, C.W.

• ISBN-13: 9780517119815 / 978-0-517-11981-5
• ISBN-03: 0517119811 / 0-517-11981-1
• Wings Books, New York, 1994

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by: Spencer, P.

• ISBN-13: 9780710300652 / 978-0-7103-0065-2
• ISBN-03: 0710300654 / 0-7103-0065-4
• Kegan Paul International, London, 1984

Price: 49,30 EURO

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