Author: Brian M. Fagan
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Which of those unique moments of discovery do you most treasure, or envy? In this book Fagan has gathered together fifty-five first-hand accounts of some of those seminal experiences including the discovery of Lucy, Carter and Tutankhamen, Wooley at Ur, the Aegina marbles, Tollund man, John Lloyd Stephens discovering the Maya .... A huge range of excavations and excavators described in their own evocative prose.