Gods, graves, and scholars : the story of archaeology

[C.W. Ceram is the pseud. of Karl Wilhelm Marek.]. Orig. pub. in German as Gotter, Graber und Gelehrte by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Hamburg-Stuttgart.. Transl. by E.B. Garside.

Part 1 - The book of the statues: Pompeii, Troy, Mycenae, Crete. 1 The queen of Naples: from her garden to Pompei. 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 Evans: Crete and the minotaur. Part 2 - The book of the pyramids: the empires of Egypt. 7 Napoleon: in the land of the pharaohs. 8 Champollion (I): the mystery of the Rosetta Stone. 9 Champolliion (II): treason and hieroglyphics. 10 Belzoni, Lepsius, and Mariette: life in ancient Egypt. 11 Petrie: the tomb of Amenemhet. 12 Robbers in the valley of the kings. 13 Carter: the tomb of Tutankhamen. 14 Carter and Carnarvon: the curse of the pharaohs. Part 3 - The book of the towers: the kingdoms of Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumeria. 15 Botta finds Nineveh. 16 Grotefend: a schoolteacher deciphers the Babylonian tablets. 17 Rawlinson: Nebuchadnezzar's dictionary in clay. 18 Layard: a dilettante outwits a pasha. 19 George Smith: the story of the flood. 20 Koldewey: the tower of Babel. Part 4 - The book of the temples: the empires of the Toltecs, the Aztecs, and the Mayas. 22 Cortez: the treasure of Moctezuma. 23 John Lloyd Stephens buys a jungle city. 24 The mystery of the abandoned Mayan cities. 25 Edward Herbert Thompson: Chichen-Itza, the sacred well. 26 Toltecs, Aztecs, and Mayas: whence did they come?. Part 5 - Books that connot yet be written. 17 New searches in old empires

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