Gods, graves, and scholars : the story of archaeology / By C. W. Ceram [i. e. Kurt W. Marek] ; translated from the German by E. B. Garside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ceram, C. W., 1915-1972.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--History.

Archaeology.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 426, xvi pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf, 1951.

Contents:

Book of the Statues: 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

Book of the pyramids: 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

Book of the towers: Botta finds Nineveh

Grotefend: Schoolteacher deciphers cuneiform

Rawlinson: Nebuchadnezzar's dictionary in clay

Layard: Dilettante outwits a Pasha

George Smith: Story of the flood

Koldewey: Tower of Babel

Woolley: Oldest culture in the world

Book of the temples: Cortes (I): Treasure of Moctezuma

Cortes (II): Beheaded culture

John Lloyd Stephens buys a jungle city

Intermezzo

Mystery of the abandoned Mayan cities

Edward Herbert Thompson: Chichen-Itza and the sacred well

Aztecs, Mayas, and Toltecs: Whence did they come?

Books that cannot yet be written: New searches in Old Empires.

Notes:

Bibliography : pages 419-425.

Cited in:

Public library core collection: nonfiction. 14th ed., p. 1305

OCLC:

832772