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Eyewitness to discovery : first-person accounts of more than fifty of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries
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Eyewitness to discovery : first-person accounts of more than fifty of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries

Author: Brian M Fagan
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In Eyewitness to Discovery, Brian M. Fagan gathers together 55 vivid accounts of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries, from the tomb of Tutankhamun and the Aegean Marbles to Otzi the Iceman and Macchu Picchu, told by the people who discovered them. The selections chronicle the development of the field, from the early 1700s when archaeology was little more than a lighthearted treasure hunt, to the late  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Brian M Fagan
ISBN: 0195081412 9780195081411 0195126513 9780195126518
OCLC Number: 34710919
Description: x, 493 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 26 cm.
Contents: The Antiquity of Humankind / Jacques Boucher De Perthes and John Evans -- Finding Beijing Man / J. Gunnar Andersson -- The Discovery of Australopithecus / Raymond Arthur Dart -- The Discovery of Zinjanthropus boisei / Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey -- Lucy / Donald Johanson -- The Cro-Magnons / Edouard Lartet and Louis Lartet -- Tomb Robber by the Nile / Giovanni Belzoni -- The Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs / Jean Francois Champollion and Tomkyns Turner -- Assyrian Palaces at Nimrud / Austen Henry Layard -- Cracking Cuneiform's Code / Henry Creswicke Rawlinson -- The Tomb of Tutankhamun / Howard Carter -- The Nubian Kings of Kerma / George Reisner -- Ukhaidir and Assur / Gertrude Bell -- The Royal Cemetery at Ur / Leonard Woolley -- Excavating Under Jerusalem / Charles Warren -- The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls / John Allegro -- Digging Up Jericho / Kathleen Kenyon -- The Aegina Marbles / Samuel Pepys Cockerell -- Homeric Troy / Heinrich Schliemann.
Responsibility: edited by Brian M. Fagan.
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In Eyewitness to Discovery, Brian M. Fagan gathers together 55 vivid accounts of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries, from the tomb of Tutankhamun and the Aegean Marbles to Otzi the Iceman and Macchu Picchu, told by the people who discovered them. The selections chronicle the development of the field, from the early 1700s when archaeology was little more than a lighthearted treasure hunt, to the late twentieth century when discoveries often come not only from spectacular excavations, but also from the screens of computers or from the analysis of pollen grains invisible to the naked eye. Fagan provides engaging, informative introductions to each selection, as well as an introduction to the volume that lays out the history of archaeology. But the heart of the book is the excitement of the discoveries themselves.

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