Record details

• ISBN: 1629972622
• ISBN: 9781629972626
• Physical Description: 12 audio discs : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Great Courses/National Geographic, [2016]
• Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:

Title from disc label.

Course no. 9431.

24 lectures; 30 minutes per lecture.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Course guidebook includes biographical notes, lecture guides, bibliographical references and credits.

Formatted Contents Note:

Volume 1 : The origins of modern archaeology -- Excavting Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Schliemann and his sucessors at Troy -- Early archaeology in Mesopotamia -- How do archaeologists know where to dig? -- Prehistoric archaeology -- Gobekli Tepe, Catalhoyuk, and Jericho -- Pyramids, Mummies and Hieroglyphics -- King Tut's tomb -- How you do excavate at a site? -- Discovering Mycenae and Knossos -- Santorini, Akrotiri, and the Atlantis myth.

Volume 2: The Uluburun shipwreck -- The dead sea scrolls -- The myth to Masada? -- Megiddo: Excavating armageddon -- The Canaanite Palace at Tel Kabri -- Petra, Palmyra, and Ebla -- How are artifacts dated and preserved? -- The terracotta army, Sutton Hoo, and Otzi -- Discovering the Maya -- The Nazca Lines, Sipan, and Machu Picchu -- Archaeology in North America -- From the Aztecs to Future Archaeology.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lectures presented by Dr. Eric H. Cline, The George Washington University.

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Subject:

Archaeology > History and criticism.
Archaeology > Study and teaching.
Archaeology > Influence.
Archaeology.
Archaeology > Study and teaching.

Genre:

Lectures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Lectures.

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