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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Foreword to the Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition
Foreword to the First American Edition
Contents
I The Book of the Statues: Pompeii, Troy, Mycenæ, Crete
1/The Queen of Naples: From Her Garden to Pompeii
2/Winckelmann: The Birth of a Science
3/Interlude: Why Search for the Past?
4/Schliemann (I): A Merchant Digs for Trojan Gold
5/Schliemann (II): The Mask of Agamemnon
6/Schliemann (III): Conflict with the Scholars
7/Schliemann (IV): Mycenæ, Tiryns, and Crete
8/Evans: Crete and the Minotaur
II The Book of the Pyramids: The Empires of Egypt
9/Napoleon: In the Land of the Pharaohs
10/Champollion (I): The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone
11/Champollion (II): Treason and Hieroglyphics
12/Beizoni, Lepsius, and Mariette: Life in Ancient Egypt
13/Petrie: The Tomb of Amenemhet
14/Robbers in the Valley of the Kings
15/Mummies
16/Carter: The Tomb of Tutankhamen
17/Carter: The Curse of the Pharaohs
III The Book of the Towers: The Kingdoms of Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumeria
18/Botta Finds Nineveh
19/Grotefend: A Schoolteacher Deciphers Cuneiform
20/Rawlinson: Nebuchadnezzar’s Dictionary in Clay
21/Layard: A Dilettante Outwits a Pasha
22/George Smith: The Story of the Flood
23/Koldewey: The Tower of Babel
24/Woolley: The Oldest Culture in the World
IV The Book of the Temples: The Empires of the Aztecs, the Mayas, and the Toltecs
25/Cortés (I): The Treasure of Moctezuma
26/Cortés (II): The Beheaded Culture
27/John Lloyd Stephens Buys a Jungle City
28/Intermezzo
29/The Mystery of the Abandoned Mayan Cities
30/Edward Herbert Thompson: Chiché-Itzá and the Sacred Well
31/Aztecs, Mayas, and Toltecs: Whence Did They Come?
V Books That Cannot Yet be Written
32/New Searches in Old Empires
Chronological Tables
Bibliography
Bibliography
About the Author
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