Introduction Gigantic Works: Antonio da Magdalena at Angkor Wat, 1586-9 The City Disinterred: The Discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii, 1594-1763 The Navel of the World: The Mystery of Easter Island, 1722 Olympia Reborn: Locating the Site of the Ancient Olympics, 1766 A Very Remote Period Indeed: John Frere and the Antiquity of Man, 1797 A Rose-Red City Half as Old as Time: Burckhardt at Petra, 1812 In the Land of Ozymandias: Belzoni in Egypt, 1817 The Key to Egypt: The Secret of the Rosetta Stone, 1824 Careless of Comfort: Layard Excavates Nineveh and and Nimrud, 1839 Shattered Barques: The Hidden Cities of the Maya, 1839 White Gold: The Salt Mines of Hallstatt, 1846 In Strabo's Footsteps: The Search for the Serapeum, 1850 The Stones Beneath the Sand: The Ancient Village of Skara Brae, 1850 The Lost World of Altamira: The Discovery of Cave Art, 1868 Men of Flesh: Schliemann Excavates Troy, 1870 Searching for the Lost Temple of Solomon: Great Zimbabwe, 1871 The Cowboy Archaeologist: Richard Wetherill in the Midwest, 1884 Horizon of the Sun: The Forgotten City of the Sun Pharoah, 1887 The Search for the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois Meets Java Man, 1890 The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: Unearthing the Lady of Elx, 1897 The Realm of the Minotaur: Arthur Evans at Knossos, 1899 A Clockwork Universe: The Recovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, 1900 From the Bowels of the Earth: Malta's Hidden Prehistory, 1902 The Witchery of the Jungle: Machu Picchu, Outpost of the Incas, 1911 In the Land of Abraham: The Great Death Pit of Ur, 1922 A Sealed Doorway: Howard Carter in the Tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922 The Mound of the Dead: Discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization, 1924 The Medieval Time Machine: Beneath the Streets of Novgorod, 1929 War and Peace: Restoring the Ara Pacis, 1938 Light on a Dark Age: The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, 1939 The Riddle of the Sands: Decoding the Nazca Lines, 1946 The Wolf in the Cave: The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947 Ship of a Million Years: Kamal el-Mallakh and Khufu's Boat, 1950 The First Town: The Strange World of Catalhoyuk, 1958 The Dunghill of the Universe: The Sunken City of Port Royal, 1966 The Flower of All Ships: Finding the Mary Rose, 1967 The People of Lake Mungo: The First Australians, 1968 Letters from the Wall: The Vindolanda Tablets, 1973 A Girl Called Lucy: The Origin of the Species? 1974 Guardians of Eternity: The Terracotta Army, 1974 Blood Rites: Uncovering the Aztec Templo Mayor, 1978 Water World: The Bronze Age Rituals of Flag Fen, 1982 The Bodies in the Bog: The Burials of Lindow Moss, 1983 A Soldier's Tale: The Archaeology of Custer's Last Stand, 1984 Missing in Action: Finding the Site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 1989 The Lost Squadron: The Ice-bound Aircraft of Greenland, 1990 The Ice Man Cometh: An Alpine Traveller from the Copper Age, 1993 Song of the Ice Maiden: The Frozen Tombs of the Altay Mountains, 1993 American Pioneers: Kennewick Man, 1996 New Arrivals: The Grave of the Amesbury Archer, 2002 Glossary Index Acknowledgements
