Gods, Graves & Scholars
The Story of Archaeology
2. Auflage
Erschienen am 18. Januar 2012
536 Seiten
978-0-307-81427-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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.
Illustrated with drawings, maps, and photographs
Illustrated with drawings, maps, and photographs
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Auflage
2nd ed.
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
USA
Produkt-Hinweis
Windows
Dateigröße
12,74 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-307-81427-2 (9780307814272)
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C. W. Ceram (January 20, 1915 - April 12, 1972) was a German journalist and author. His most notable work, Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaelogy - was published in 28 languages and had over 5 million copies in circulation. The Ceram Prize in archaeology is posthumously named after him.
Inhalt
- Intro
- 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
