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World map -- Archaeology now: New finds and fresh perspectives -- Discoveries from the ice age -- New evidence from Africa : rewriting the story of human origins -- The mystery of the skulls from Dmanisi, Georgia -- The first Europeans and the pit of the bones at Atapuerca, Spain -- Boxgrove : the oldest human fossils in Britain -- The 'Hobbit' : an unknown human relative? -- Tombs, graves and mummies -- The Iceman : a 5,000-year-old murder victim? -- The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen : men of Stonehenge -- New revelations from the pyramids of Giza -- The tomb of Tutankhamun's mother? : an 18th dynasty chamber in the Valley of the Kings -- Pharaoh's children : the tomb of the sons of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings -- New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara -- Where the living feasted with the dead : the royal tombs of Qatna, Syria -- The royal tombs of Nimrud, Iraq : the treasures of Assyrian queens -- The great Ryzhanovka Barrow : an intact burial of a Scythian nobleman -- The Valley of the Golden Mummies, Egypt -- Bodies from the bog : new insights into life and death in pagan Celtic Ireland -- Warriors, musicians and acrobats at the tomb of the first Emperor of China -- The Spitalfields Lady : the finest Roman grave ever found in London -- Moche tombs at Dos Cabezas, Peru -- Power and prestige : middle Sicán elite tombs of North coastal Peru -- The Red Queen and other new Maya tombs -- Chachapoya : mummies in the Cloud Forest of Peru -- Inca mummies : child sacrifice on Andean peaks -- The Prittlewell Prince : an Anglo-Saxon royal burial -- Treasures of ancient art -- At the origins of art : new discoveries of decorated caves -- Black pharaohs: a cachette of statues from Kerma, Sudan -- Artistic splendours from the Greek and Roman world -- Turkey's Pompeii: the magnificent mosaics of Zeugma -- Maize God and the mythology of kings: Maya paintings at San Bartolo, Guatemala -- Torcs, coins and gold cups: ancient hoards from Britain -- Hoxne treasure: a late Roman hoard -- Spillings: the world's
biggest Viking silver hoard -- Portraits in pottery: ceramic vessels from Lake Titicaca -- Statues of the Buddha from Qingzhou, China -- Lost cities -- Caral: the oldest civilization in Peru and the Americas -- Pyramid City, Giza -- Jinsha: changing the map of ancient China -- Towards a new Jerusalem -- Saxon London, concealed beneath the city streets -- Jamestown: the fort that was the birthplace of the United States of America -- Enigmas of ritual and religion -- Carved creatures from the dawn of agriculture: Gobekii Tepe, Turkey -- Secrets revealed at Britain's Henges -- The Nebra Sky Disc: the oldest representation of the Heavens -- Helmets and war-trumpets: a ritual hoard from Tintignac, France -- Symbols of religion and power: the Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan -- Moche ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna, Peru -- Discoveries from the deep -- World's oldest boats, from Abydos, Egypt -- Alexandria underwater: Greek cities beneath the sea in Egypt -- Ancient port and ships of Pisa -- HMS Pandora: the ship sent to find the Bounty mutineers -- Submarine and ironclad: American civil war wrecks -- Scientific discoveries -- DNA and archaeology -- Ice ages, floods and droughts: the impact of climate change in the past -- Ancient wine and beer -- Medical science and archaeology -- Ancient writing: early hieroglyphs from Abydos, Egypt -- Ancient writing: biblical inscriptions -- Ancient writing: China's "Dead Sea Scrolls" -- Ancient writing: new advances in Maya decipherment -- Ancient writing: deciphering the knotted strings of the Incas -- Cascajal block: the new world's oldest writing -- Further reading -- Index. |
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