| Description |
428 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (on lining papers) ; 31 cm |
| 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." |
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Includes index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- History -- Sources.
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Civilization, Ancient -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Bacon, Edward.
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| Added Title |
Illustrated London news.
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| ISBN |
0672520524 |
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9780672520525 |
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