Henry Carter Hull

Contains 56 maps, 329 illustrations, and accompanying text describing ancient American art, history, and archaeology.

Draws upon archaeological research and hieroglyphic decipherments to dispel myths surrounding the fall of the ancient Maya civilization and determine the causes of the collapse, discussing discoveries at such sites as Copan, Dos Pilas, Piedras Negras, and Tikal.

Examines the history, culture, and architecture of the legendary Anasazi people in an attempt to discover who they were and why they abandoned their civilization more than seven centuries ago.

Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears-and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue. At...

Illustrations and text explore the history of Imperial China from its earliest beginnings to the days of the last emperor.

Traces the history of the Great Sphinx of Giza, discussing its impact on the ancient world and on writers, researchers, travellers, scientists, and archaeologists from various eras, and recounting its excavation and restoration.

Looks at the kingdoms of ancient Turkey, using archeological sites, artifacts, photographs, and drawings to illustrate the lost civilizations.

Describes what it would have been like to have lived during the heyday of Mexico's greatest cities. . .

"A sweeping history of Jerusalem and the pivotal role that archaeology has played--both in its invention as a modern holy city and as the match that lit a geopolitical fire beneath it In 1863, a French politician and adventurer heard a rumor of biblical treasures beneath Jerusalem. At the time, Jerusalem was a venerable backwater, not the thriving religious center we think of today. Archaeology itself was in its infancy--more a pastime for treasure-hunting...