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Discovery of lost worlds
Format:
Book
Title:
Discovery of lost worlds
ISBN:
9780828103084

9780828103091
Publication Information:
New York : American Heritage Pub. Co. : Book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, ©1979.
Physical Description:
352 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
The earliest cities / Lionel Casson -- Petra : the rose-red city -- The realm of the mother goddess / Alexander Eliot -- The sacred well of the Maya -- The horse in history / Lionel Casson -- A Mayan city to buy -- Archaeology and the Bible / Magnus Magnusson -- The builders of Zimbabwe -- The scrap paper of Egypt / Lionel Casson -- The key to hieroglyphics -- Out of the earth : an anthology -- Time stopped at Pompeii / Michail Grant -- The truth about Etruscan women -- The mysterious Celts / Geoffrey Bibby -- The real King Arthur -- The trail of the Vikings / Geoffrey Bibby -- The tomb of Philip of Macedon -- The Indian discovery of America / Robert Claiborne -- The Cardiff giant -- The lost city of the Incas / John Hemming -- The stones of Tiahuanaco -- Travelers in antique lands : an anthology -- The survival of records / Gilbert Highet -- A happy Roman marriage -- From the tombs of China / Edward H. Schafer.
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