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a Pelican Book
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It is a quarter of a century since C. W. Ceram marched into the museum of archaeology with his feather-duster. By dramatizing, in Gods, Graves and Scholars, the dedicated and often extraordinary lives of the men who turned the earth and read the signs - from Winckelmann to Woolley and beyond - he succeeded at a stroke in popularizing archaeology itself.
This book, then, is the story of Schliemann and Evans; of Champollion, Belzoni (the circus strong-man), Petrie and Howard Carter; of Grotefend, Rawlinson, Layard and George Smith; and of Stephens and Thompson in the New World. But it has served to introduce millions to the exhumed mysteries of ancient Greece, Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Egypt of the Pharaohs, Nineveh, Babylon, Ur and the Epic of Gilgamesh -, the jungle cities of Yucatan and the hundreds of exciting discoveries still being made.
Arnold Toynbee called Gods, Graves and Scholars, in its original edition, 'a fascinating account...
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Fülszöveg
a Pelican Book
Secorid Edition
It is a quarter of a century since C. W. Ceram marched into the museum of archaeology with his feather-duster. By dramatizing, in Gods, Graves and Scholars, the dedicated and often extraordinary lives of the men who turned the earth and read the signs - from Winckelmann to Woolley and beyond - he succeeded at a stroke in popularizing archaeology itself.
This book, then, is the story of Schliemann and Evans; of Champollion, Belzoni (the circus strong-man), Petrie and Howard Carter; of Grotefend, Rawlinson, Layard and George Smith; and of Stephens and Thompson in the New World. But it has served to introduce millions to the exhumed mysteries of ancient Greece, Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Egypt of the Pharaohs, Nineveh, Babylon, Ur and the Epic of Gilgamesh -, the jungle cities of Yucatan and the hundreds of exciting discoveries still being made.
Arnold Toynbee called Gods, Graves and Scholars, in its original edition, 'a fascinating account of one of the greatest achievements of our modern Western civilization'. It remains that- and more - in this new and enlarged version.
The cover shows a detail of 'Karnak, 1838' by David Roberts, R.A., a water-colour in the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon, reproduced by kind permission of the owners
For copyright reasons this edition Is not for sale in the U.S.A.
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