From the Book - [1st ed.]
Giovanni Belzoni / Exploring the valley of the kings.
Auguste Mariette / The cemetery of the sacred bulls.
Gaston Maspero / A windfall of royal mummies.
Wallis Budge / The Tell-el-Amarna tablets.
Flinders Petrie / A "missing link" of the pyramids.
Bernard Grenfell / Manuscripts from the sands of Egypt.
Howard Carter / The tomb of Tutankhamen.
Austen Layard / The huge mounds of Assyria.
Henry Rawlinson / Climbing after cuneiform.
George Smith / To nineveh for the daily telegraph.
Leonard Woolley / The graves of the Kings of Ur.
Samuel Noah Kramer / Older than Hammurabi's code.
Claude Schaeffer / The oldest alphabet.
Nelson Glueck / King Solomon's Pittsburgh.
Millar Burrows / The Dead Sea Scrolls.
Lankester Harding / Where Christ may have studied.
Heinrich Schliemann / Unearthing Troy.
Hugo Winckler / The capital of the Hittites.
David Hogarth / Dredging for Diana's treasure.
Arthur Evans / The palace of Minos.
Michael Ventris / Deciphering Europe's oldest script.
