Fagan, Brian M.[ed].

Eyewitness to Discovery – First Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World’s Greatest Archaeological Discoveries.

Oxford & New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. 20 cm x 25 cm. X, 493 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Includes the following chapters: The Antiquity of Humankind – Jacques Boucher de Perthes and John Evans, The Discovery of Australopithecus – Raymond Arthur Dart, The Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs – Jean Francois Champollion and Tomkyns Turner, Assyrian Palaces at Nimrud – Austen Henry Layard, The Tomb of Tutankhamun – Howard Carter, Excavating under Jerusalem – Charles Warren, Homeric Troy – Heinrich Schliemann, The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial – Charles Green, Great Zimbabwe – Carl Mauch, Late Ice Age Hunters in Tasmania – Rhys Jones, The Aztec Templo Mayor – Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, and Bridging Cultures at Carchemish – Leonard Wooley. Illustrated throughout both in colour and in black & white.

• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195081412
• Inventory Number: 75239AB

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