Gods, Graves, And Scholars The Story Of Archaeology

Author: C. W. Ceram

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  • : 9780575006614
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  • : January 1971
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  • : C. W. Ceram
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  • : 913.03/1
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  • : xvi, 441
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Barcode 9780575006614
9780575006614

Local Description

1971. Reprint. A near fine copy only marked by light tanning to the edges of the text block. The d/w is very good apart from sunfading to the spine.

Description

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.