Foreword/ C.W. Ceram The ideal archaelogist/ C.L. Woolley How to buy antiquities/ C.L. Woolley How to steal antiquities/ C.M. Lerici A strange bargain/ C.L. Woolley Leagalized art robbery The complete forger/ C.L. Woolley The Olympia convention The foundation of the British Museum/ H. Sloane A troublesome legacy/ H. Walpole The controversial bequest of Lord Elgin The treasure of Priam/ H. Schliemann A stolen treasure/ H. Schliemann A Mycenaen ruler/ H. Schliemann Winkelmann in Herculaneum The plaster corpses of Pompeii/ A. Goldsmidt The discovery of the 'Venus de Milo'/ C. Tarral The charioteer of Delphi The discovery of the Hermes of Praxiteles/ E. Curtius The rebuilding of the Stoa/ P. Mackendrick The London Mithraeum/ R.L.S. Bruce-Mitford Traces of the Ethruscans/ G. Dennis The bull of Minos/ A.J. Evans Reconstruction work at Knossos/ A.J. Evans Ventris deciphers the Cretan script/ W. Taylour The tourist and the monuments/ A.F. Mariette Excavations in Egypt/ J.L. Burckhardt A visit to Thebes/ D.V. Denon The opening of a pyramid/ G.B. Belzoni A cache of mummies at Thebes/ G.B. Belzoni The temple of Abu Simbel/ J.L. Burckhardt Coffee at Abu Simbel/ A. Edwards Appeal by Mr V. Veronese A hoard of royal mummies/ G.C. Maspero A false interpretation of the hieroglyphs/ A. Kircher How the Rosette Stone came to the British Museum/ T.H. Turner Champollion deciphers the hieroglyphs A fantastic interpretation of the Great Pyramid/ C.P. Smyth The underwater tomb/ W.F. Petrie The discovery of the Amarna tablets/ E.A. Budge Tutankhamen/ H. Carter The golden coffin/ H. Carter The buried pyramid/ Z. Goneim A second solution to the cuneiform script/ H.C. Rawlinson Was Babylon here?/ C.J. Rich The walls of Babylon/ R. Koldewey A curious sculpture/ R. Koldewey Problems at the excavation of Nineveh/ P.E. Botta Excavations at Nimrud/ A.H. Layard Discoveries and alarms/ A.H. Layard The Gilgamesh Epic is found/ G. Smith Early technical achievements/ H.V. Hilprecht The royal graves of Ur/ C.L. Woolley Digging up pergamon/ C. Humann The discovery of the Hamah stones/ W. Wright To boghazköy!/ H. Winckler Hrozný deciphers the Hittite cuneiform/ L. Matous Excavations at the Black mountain/ H. Bossert The royal residence on the 'River of Nymphs'/ F.K. Dörner The discovery of Ugarit/ C.F. Schaeffer Solomon's foundries/ N. Glueck The dead sea scrolls/ J.M. Allegro The pyramid of Cholula/ A. Von Humboldt Travels in the Yucatan/ J.M. Waldeck The purchase of a city/ J.L. Stephens The palace at Palenque/ J.L. Stephens The elephant in America?/ G. Elliot Smith The temple pyramid of Tepoxtlan/ E. Seler A royal tomb at Palenque/ A. Ruz Machu Picchu, the sacred city/ H. Bingham The bridge of San Luis Rey/ V.M. Von Hagen A problem of Tihuanacu/ A Posnansky Archaeology from the air/ O.G. Crawford The blue museum/ J.-Y. Cousteau Atomic physics in archaeology/ T.G. Bibby The Lerici periscope/ C.M. Laericic Photogrammetry Computer decipherment? List of Sources Index