The Great archaeologists / edited by Edward Bacon.

Other author Bacon, Edward.
Format Book
Publication InfoIndianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, ©1976.
Description428 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (on lining papers) ; 31 cm
Subjects

Contents 1842-1846 London, England; Xanthus, Asia Minor; Central America -- 1847-1851 Nimroud, Assyria -- 1852-1856 Nimroud, Assyria; Nineveh, Assyria; Cumae, Italy -- 1857-1861 Halicarnassus, Asia minor; Wroxeter, England; Amiens, France -- 1862-1966 Pompeii, Italy -- 1867-1871 Ongou Wat, Cambodia; Cornwall, England; Jerusalem, Palestine -- 1872-1876 Zimbabwe, Central Africa; Ephesus, Asia Minor; Mycenae, Greece -- 1877-1881 Mycenae, Greece; Cleopatra's Needle, Alexandria, Egypt; Troy, Asia Minor; Balawat, Assyria -- 1882-1886 Thebes,Egypt; Pithom-Succoth, Eqypt; Inca Empire, Peru; Naukratis, Egypt; Daphnae, Egypt; Guatavita, Colombia -- Nile Delta, Egypt; Lachish, Palestine; Silchester England -- 1892-1902 Tell el Amarna, Egypt; Dahshur, Egypt -- 1903-1905 Karnak, Egypt; Sinai, Arabia; Lake Nemi, Italy -- 1906-1908 Valley of the Kings, Egypt; Knossos, Crete -- 1909 Tunhuan, Chinese Turkestan -- 1910 Phaestus, Crete; Pompeii, Italy -- 1911 Minoan empire, crete; Glastonbury, England -- 1912 Altamira, Spain -- 1913 Nasca, Peru -- 1914-1918 Scythia, Russia; Carchemish, Syria; Abydos, Egypt; Lahun, Egypt -- 1919 El Bosque, Spain -- 1920 Teotihuacan, Mexico; Mycenae, Greece -- 1921 Thebes, Egypt; Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia; Knossos, Crete -- 1922 Gortyna Crete; Knossos, crete; Ur, Babylonia; Tell el Amarna, Egypt; Taxila, India; Valley of Kings, Egypt; Akhetaten, Egypt; Tutankhamen's Tomb, Egypt -- 1923 Tutankhamen's Tomb, Egypt; Maya empire, central America; Mycenae, Greece -- 1923-1931 Summary of discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb -- 1924 Tutankhamen's tomb, Egypt; Lubaantun, British Honduras; Ur, Babylonia; Yucatan, Mexico -- 1925 Ur, Babylonia; Tell el Obeid, Babylonia; Pylos, Greece; Predmost, Moravia -- 1926 Indus Valley, India -- 1927 Giza, Egypt; Ur, Babylonia -- 1928 Indus Valley, India; Ur, Babylonia; Dendra, Greece -- 1929 Ur, Babylonia -- 1930 Knossos, Crete -- 1931 Knossos, Crete -- 1932 Ajia Irini, Cyprus -- 1933 Persepolis, Persia -- 1934-1939 Ras Sharma, Syria; Tell Asmar, Babylonia -- 1940-1945 Lascaux, France -- 1946 Mildenhall, England; Brno, Moravia -- 1947-1948 Lascaux, France; Bonampak, Mexico; Alalakh, Anatolia -- 1949-50 Karatepe, Anatolia; Angles-sur-l' Angling, France; Bonampak, Mexico; Mohenjo-Daro, India; Nimrud, Assyria -- 1951 Straubing, Bavaria; Nimrud, Assyria -- 1952-1953 Vienne, France; Enkomi, Cyprus; Nimrud, Assyria; Mycenea, Greece; Vix, France; Pazyryk, Siberia; Palenque, Mexico; Jericho, Palestine -- 1954-1955 Pylos, Greece; Mycenae, Greece; London, England; Pazyryk, Siberia; Vix, France; Piazza Armeriana, Sicily -- 1956-1957 Gordion, Asia Minor; Phaistos, Crete; Pylos, Greece; Nimrud, Assyria -- 1958-1959 Ephesus, Asia Minor; Gordion, Asia Minor; the proton magnetometer; Buhen, the Sudan; Dorak, Asia Minor -- 1960-1961 Shanidar, Iraq; Hacilar, Anatolia; Nahal Mishmar, Israel -- 1962-1963 Tikal, Guatamala; Marlik, Iran; Salamis, Cyprus; Catal Huyuk, Anatolia -- 1964 Chatal Huyuk, Anatolia; Kato Zakro, Crete; Roman Fishbourne, England; Masada, Israel -- 1965 Peristeria, Greece -- 1966 Chatal Huyuk, Anatolia -- 1967-1970 Salamis, Cyprus; Lepenski Vir, Yugoslavia; Knowth, Ireland; Mycenae, Greece -- 1971 onwards Editor's summary.
General note"The modern world's discovery of ancient civilisations as originally reported in the pages of The Illustrated London News from 1842 to the present day."
General noteIncludes index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Great archaeologists. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, c1976
Other title Illustrated London news.
LCCN 76010081
ISBN0672520524
ISBN9780672520525

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