Боги, гробницы и ученые

"Gods, Tombs and Scientists" tells the story of the historical development of archeology.

The book has gained worldwide fame and has been translated into 26 languages. Based entirely on facts, it reads like a gripping novel. The book tells about the secrets of centuries gone by, about amazing adventures, fatal failures and well-deserved victories of people who made the greatest archaeological discoveries in the 19th-20th centuries. This journey through millennia introduces the existence of civilizations other, more ancient than Egyptian and Greek - Babylon, Sumer, Akkad.

The reader learns about the discoveries of Heinrich Schliemann on the Hissarlik hill, where he was looking for ancient Troy, and in Mycenae, about how Arthur Evans managed to find traces of ancient Greek culture on the island of Crete; how Carter and Carnarvon found the famous tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, and Stephens and Thompson found the ancient cities of the Mayans and their legendary capital Chichen Itza; how Champollion deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Grotefend and Rawlinson laid the foundation for the decipherment of cuneiform, and about many other, no less interesting discoveries, as a result of which humanity was able to get acquainted with the greatest cultures of the ancient world.

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Lots of b/w illustrations. The condition is good. There is a dust jacket (damaged).