From the Book - 2d, rev. and substantially enl. ed.
I. The book of the Statues: Pompeii, Troy, Mycenae, Crete
The Queen of Naples: From her garden to Pompeii
Winckelmann: Birth of a science
Interlude: Why search for the past?
Schliemann (I): Merchant digs for Trojan gold
Schliemann (II): Mask of Agamemnon
Schliemann (III): Conflict with the scholars
Schliemann (IV): Mycenae, Tiryns, and Crete
Evans: Crete and the Minotaur
II. The book of the pyramids: The empires of Eypt
Napolean: In the land of the Pharaohs
Champollion (I): Mystery of the Rosetta Stone
Champollion (II): Treason and hieroglyphics
Belzoni, Lepsius, and Mariette: Life in Ancient Egypt
Petrie: Tomb of Amenemhet
Robbers in the valley of the Kings
Carter: Tomb of Tutankhamen
Carter: Curse of the Pharaohs
III. The book of the towers: The kingdoms of Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumeria
Grotefend: A schoolteacher deciphers cuneiform
Rawlinson: Nebuchadnezzar's dictionary in clay
Layard: Dilettante outwits a pasha
George Smith: The story of the flood
Koldewey: The Tower of Babel
Woolley: The oldest culture in the world
IV. The book of the temples: The empires of the Aztecs, the Mayas, and the toltecs
Cort (I): The treasure of Moctezuma
Cort (II): The beheaded culture
John Lloyd Stephens buys a jungle city
The mystery of the abandoned Mayan cities
Edward Herbert Thompson: Chich-Itzand the sacred well
Aztecs, Mayas, and Toltecs: Whence did they come?
V. Books that cannot yet be written
New searches in Old Empires