Eyewitness to Discovery: First Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries

Eyewitness to Discovery: First Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries

by Brian M . Fagan (Editor)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 503
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Published: 01 Sep 1996

ISBN 10: 0195081412
ISBN 13: 9780195081411

Author Bio

About the Editor:
Brian M. Fagan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is internationally known for his books on archaeology, among them The Adventure of Archaeology and The Rape of the Nile, and as a columnist for Archaeology magazine.