Introduction : enigmas from the past -- Ice Age hunters : artists in hidden caves -- Roots of the city : Jericho and Çatal Hüyük -- Egypt's pyramids : monuments of the Pharaohs -- Ancient India : cities lost in time -- Megaliths : Europe's silent stones -- Minoans : a joyous people vanishes in myth -- Mycenaeans : warrior-merchants of Greece -- Etruscans : festive in life, lavish in death -- Easter Island : brooding sentinels of stone.