| Description |
304 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Note |
Companion volume to: The seventy wonders of the ancient world. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297) and index. |
| Contents |
Myths & legends : hidden truths? -- Introduction -- 1. The Garden of Eden -- 2. The Biblical flood & Noah's ark -- 3. Moses & the exodus : myth or reality? -- 4. The lost cities of Sodom & Gomorrah -- 5. Atlantis : fact of fiction? -- 6. The Trojan War -- 7. Theseus & the Minotaur -- 8. Jason & the Argonauts -- 9. The ten lost tribes of Israel -- 10. The quest for the Ark of the Covenant -- 11. The star of Bethlehem -- 12. King Arthur & the Holy Grail -- 13. The Turin shroud -- 14. Maya myth : will the world end in 2012? -- 15. Aztlán & the myth of the Aztec migration -- 16. Memories of the dreamtime -- |
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Mysteries of the Stone Age -- Introduction -- 17. The puzzle of human origins -- 18. How did language evolve? -- 19. What happened to the Neanderthals? -- 20. The enigma of Palaeolithic cave art -- 21. Who were the first Australians? -- 22. The first Americans & Kennewick man -- 23. What wiped out the big game animals? -- 24. How did farming begin? -- 25. The mysteries of rock art -- 16. The meaning of the megaliths -- 27. Was there a mother goddess cult? -- 28. The iceman : shepherd or Shaman? -- 29. How did they build Stonehenge? -- 30. Where did the Indo-Europeans come from? -- |
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Ancient civilizations -- Introduction -- 31. Were the ancient Egyptians Black Africans? -- 32. How did they erect pyramids & obelisks? -- 33. The riddle of the Sphinx -- 34. Where was the land of Punt? -- 35. Was Tutankhamun murdered? -- 36. The Tarim mummies : who were they? -- 37. Were the Olmecs African? -- 38. Why did the Carthaginians sacrifice children? -- 39. Ancient oracles : prophets or profiteers? -- 40. Who were the Celts? -- 41. Bog bodies : murder victims or sacrifices? -- 42. The lost legions of Rome -- 43. The mysteries of Mithraism -- 44. Lost city of the Maya : the hunt for site Q -- 45. The mystery of the Nazca lines -- 46. Who built Tiwanaku? -- 47. Why did the Incas sacrifice children? -- 48. How did the Polynesians find their homeland? -- 49. Statutes & survival on Easter Island -- |
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Tombs & lost treasures -- Introduction -- 50. The puzzle of tomb 55 -- 51. The lost tomb of Alexander the Great -- 52. The tomb of China's first emperor -- 53. The hidden treasure of the Dead Sea -- 54. The tomb of Christ -- |
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Ancient & undeciphered scripts -- Introduction -- 55. The origins of writing -- 56. The Proto-Elamite script -- 57. The Indus script -- 58. Linear A & the Phaistos disc -- 59. The origins of the alphabet -- 60. The Etruscan alphabet -- 61. The Meroitic script -- 62. The Zapotec & Isthmian scripts -- 63. Runes & Pictish symbol stones -- 64. Rongorongo -- |
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The fall of civilizations -- Introduction -- 65. The Thera eruption & the fall of the Minoans -- 66. The fall of Rome -- 67. El Niños & the collapse of Moche civilization -- 68. Why did Maya civilization collapse? -- 69. What happened to the Anasazi? -- 70. Catastrophic impacts from outer space? |
| Subject |
Civilization, Ancient.
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Curiosities and wonders -- History -- To 1500.
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| Added Author |
Fagan, Brian M.
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| ISBN |
0500510504 |
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