Justin Pollard is a Cambridge University Archaeology graduate, who has television experience that includes Time Team and QI. Justin is the author of Seven Ages of Britain.

IntroductionGigantic Works: Antonio da Magdalena at Angkor Wat, 1586-9"The City Disinterred": The Discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii, 1594-1763The Navel of the World: The Mystery of Easter Island, 1722Olympia Reborn: Locating the Site of the Ancient Olympics, 1766"A Very Remote Period Indeed": John Frere and the Antiquity of Man, 1797"A Rose-Red City Half as Old as Time": Burckhardt at Petra, 1812In the Land of Ozymandias: Belzoni in Egypt, 1817The Key to Egypt: The Secret of the Rosetta Stone, 1824"Careless of Comfort": Layard Excavates Nineveh and and Nimrud, 1839"Shattered Barques": The Hidden Cities of the Maya, 1839White Gold: The Salt Mines of Hallstatt, 1846In Strabo's Footsteps: The Search for the Serapeum, 1850The Stones Beneath the Sand: The Ancient Village of Skara Brae, 1850The Lost World of Altamira: The Discovery of Cave Art, 1868"Men of Flesh": Schliemann Excavates Troy, 1870Searching for the Lost Temple of Solomon: Great Zimbabwe, 1871The Cowboy Archaeologist: Richard Wetherill in the Midwest, 1884Horizon of the Sun: The Forgotten City of the Sun Pharoah, 1887The Search for the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois Meets Java Man, 1890"The Most Beautiful Woman in the World": Unearthing the Lady of Elx, 1897The Realm of the Minotaur: Arthur Evans at Knossos, 1899A Clockwork Universe: The Recovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, 1900From the Bowels of the Earth: Malta's Hidden Prehistory, 1902The Witchery of the Jungle: Machu Picchu, Outpost of the Incas, 1911In the Land of Abraham: The Great Death Pit of Ur, 1922A Sealed Doorway: Howard Carter in the Tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922The Mound of the Dead: Discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization, 1924The Medieval Time Machine: Beneath the Streets of Novgorod, 1929War and Peace: Restoring the Ara Pacis, 1938Light on a Dark Age: The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, 1939The Riddle of the Sands: Decoding the Nazca Lines, 1946The Wolf in the Cave: The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947Ship of a Million Years: Kamal el-Mallakh and Khufu's Boat, 1950The First Town: The Strange World of Catalhoyuk, 1958The Dunghill of the Universe: The Sunken City of Port Royal, 1966The Flower of All Ships: Finding the Mary Rose, 1967The People of Lake Mungo: The First Australians, 1968Letters from the Wall: The Vindolanda Tablets, 1973A Girl Called Lucy: The Origin of the Species? 1974Guardians of Eternity: The Terracotta Army, 1974Blood Rites: Uncovering the Aztec Templo Mayor, 1978Water World: The Bronze Age Rituals of Flag Fen, 1982The Bodies in the Bog: The Burials of Lindow Moss, 1983A Soldier's Tale: The Archaeology of Custer's Last Stand, 1984Missing in Action: Finding the Site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 1989The Lost Squadron: The Ice-bound Aircraft of Greenland, 1990The Ice Man Cometh: An Alpine Traveller from the Copper Age, 1993Song of the Ice Maiden: The Frozen Tombs of the Altay Mountains, 1993American Pioneers: Kennewick Man, 1996New Arrivals: The Grave of the Amesbury Archer, 2002GlossaryIndexAcknowledgements