About this title: Archaeology has an aura of romance and a long history of startling discoveries wrested from clinging soil. Indeed, patience and persistence can lead to spectacular finds, as they did for Howard Carter in November 1922. After seven years searching the Egyptian desert, Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, and in these vivid words he described what the tomb held in store: "At first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle flame to flicker, but presently, as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, ...
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Your search:Books»Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries(155 available copies)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780195081411ISBN:0195081412
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780195081411ISBN:0195081412
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Edition: 195th ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780195126518ISBN:0195126513
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1997
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1/30/1997
ISBN-13:9780195081411ISBN:0195081412
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