Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author¿s Note
Chronology: 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 1515
I. Lost Kingdoms and Biblical Lands
1. A Legacy of Civilizations
2. Early Travelers
3. Carsten Niebuhr at Persepolis
II. Consuls and Cuneiform
4. Claudius James Rich
5. Diplomacy and Archaeology in Baghdad
6. The Euphrates Expedition
7. Cuneiform Deciphered
III. Palaces of Kings
8. Excavations at Khorsabad
9. Layard of Nineveh
10. Nimrud and Khorsabad
IV. Tablets and Tells
11. Excavations in Babylonia
12. The Royal Lion Hunt
13. The Deluge Tablets
14. Gates and Palaces
15. A Scramble for Tablets
16. Sumer Discovered
17. Nebuchadnezzar¿s Babylon
18. Leonard Woolley at Carchemish
V. Science and Nationalism
19. Gertrude Bell and the New Iraq
20. Woolley at Ur
21. Nationalism and Archaeology
22. Catastrophe
Notes
Guide to Further Reading
Index