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Overview: Nowhere has the quest for man’s past been more meaningful than in the Near East, the matrix of Western civilization. In no other region has so long a line of colourful and articulate archaeologists worked.
The Treasures of Time offers the reader a treasury of significant and often stirring writings by the men who have set the pace in Near Eastern archaeology. And through readable, authoritative introductions to each selection, the whole has been woven into an integrated story by Leo Deuel, a member of the history department of the College of the City of New York. Here is the story not only of Near Eastern archaeology but also of the development of the science of archaeology itself, from its crude beginnings to its present sophistication.
In Egypt the reader of Mr. Deuel’s book participates in Belzoni’s early explorations in the Valley of the Kings, Mariette’s entry into the Cemetery of the Sacred Bulls, Maspero’s defeat of the tomb robbers, Budge’s acquisition of the Tell el-Amarna tablets, Petrie’s investigation of a “missing link” of the pyramids, Grenfell’s discovery of the Sayings of Jesus, and Carter’s excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamen. In Mesopotamia the armchair archaeologist visits the huge mounds of Assyria with Layard, climbs after cuneiform with Rawlinson, goes to Nineveh for the Daily Telegraph with Smith, uncovers the graves of the kings of Ur with Woolley, and deciphers the Ur-Nammu law code with Kramer. In Syria and Palestine Schaeffer describes the discovery of the oldest alphabet, and Glueck, Burrows, and Harding tell of the excavations at Ezion-Geber, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the finds at the monastery at Khirbet Qumran. On Anatolia, Crete, and pre-classical Greece, there is Schliemann on Troy, Winckler on the Hittites, Hogarth on his work at Ephesus, and Ventris on deciphering Linear Script B. Each of these archaeological triumphs is represented in the book’s sixteen pages of illustrations.
The Treasures of Time, in which the archaeologists themselves have the floor, gives an incomparably immediate view of some of the liveliest episodes in the annals of archaeology; at the same time, it provides a unique insight into what digging up the past is really about.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies/Memoirs
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