The life of the ancient East, being some chapters of the romance of modern excavation /
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Language: English
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New York :
The Macmillan Company,
1923.
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Call Number: DS56 .B25 1923
Table of Contents:
- Introductory : the work and the methods
- Abydos, the Holy City of Egypt, and the dawn of history
- Tell-el-Amarna; false dawn
- Thebes, the city of temples and tombs - East Bank
- Thebes, the city of temples and tombs - West Bank
- Tutankhamen in all his glory
- Lagash, the typical city-state of early Babylonia
- Babylon, the foundation of law
- Nineveh, and its robber kings
- Troy, the city of romance
- Mycenæ, and the fortress-palaces of Greece
- Knossos, the home of the sea-kings of the Ægean
- Gezer, a home of many races.