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Introduction. Gigantic Works - Antonio da Magdalena at Angkor Wat, 1586-9. 'The City Disinterred' - The Discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii, 1594-1763. The Navel of the World - The Mystery of Easter Island, 1722. Olympia Reborn - Locating the Site of the Ancient Olympics, 1766. 'A Very Remote Period Indeed' - John Frere and the Antiquity of Man, 1797. 'A Rose-Red City Half as Old as Time' - Burckhardt at Petra, 1812. In the Land of Ozymandias - Belzoni in Egypt, 1817. The Key to Egypt - The Secret of the Rosetta Stone, 1824. 'Careless of Comfort' - Layard Excavates Nineveh and Nimrod, 1839. 'Shattered Barques' - The Hidden Cities of the Maya, 1839. White Gold - The Salt Miners of Hallstatt, 1846. In Strabo's Footsteps - The Search for the Serapeum, 1850. The Stones Beneath the Sand - The Ancient Village of Skara Brae, 1850. The Lost World of Altamira - The Discovery of Cave Art, 1868. 'Men of Flesh' - Schliemann Excavates Troy, 1870. Searching for the Lost Temple of Solomon - Great Zimbabwe, 1871. The Cowboy Archaeologist - Richard Wetherill in the Midwest, 1884. Horizon of the Sun - The Forgotten City of the Sun Pharaoh, 1887. The Search for the Missing Link - Eugene Dubois Meets Java Man, 1890. 'The Most Beautiful Woman in the World' - Unearthing the Lady of Elx, 1897. The Realm of the Minotaur - Arthur Evans at Knossos, 1899. A Clockwork Universe - The Recovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, 1900. From the Bowels of the Earth - Malta's Hidden Prehistory, 1902. The Witchery of the Jungle - Machu Picchu, Outpost of the Incas, 1911. In the Land of Abraham - The Great Death Pit of Ur, 1922. A Sealed Doorway - Howard Carter in the Tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922. The Mound of the Dead - Discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization, 1924. The Medieval Time Machine - Beneath the Street of Novgorod, 1929. War and Peace - Restoring the Ara Pacis, 1938. Light on a Dark Age - The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, 1939. The Riddle of the Sands - Decoding the Nazca Lines, 1946. The Wolf in the Cave - The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947. Ship of a Million Years - Kamal el-Mallakh and Khufu's Boat, 1950. The First Town - The Strange World of Çatalhöyük, 1958. The Dunghill of the Universe - The Sunken City of Port Royal, 1966. The Flower of All Ships - Finding the Mary Rose, 1967. The People of Lake Mungo - The First Australians, 1968. Letters from the Wall - The Vindolanda Tablets, 1973. A Girl Called Lucy - The Origin of the Species? 1974. Guardians of Eternity - The Terracotta Army, 1974. Blood Rites - Uncovering the Aztec Templo Mayor, 1978. Water World - The Bronze Age Rituals of Flag Fen, 1982. The Bodies in the Bog - The Burials of Lindow Moss, 1983. A Soldier's Tale - The Archaeology of Custer's Last Stand, 1984. Missing in Action - Finding the Site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, 1989. The Lost Squadron - The Ice-bound Aircraft of Greenland, 1990. The Ice Man Cometh - An Alpine Traveller from the Copper Age, 1993. Song of the Ice Maiden - The Frozen Tombs of the Altay Mountains, 1993. American Pioneers - Kennewick Man, 1996. New Arrivals - The Grave of the Amesbury Archer, 2002. Glossary. Index. Acknowledgements.
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