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The silent past; mysterious and forgotten cultures of the world
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The silent past; mysterious and forgotten cultures of the world. Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn.
Published
New York, Putnam [1962]
Physical Description
374 p. illus. 22 cm.
Notes
Translation of Rätselhafte Kulturen.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Birds of passage
The walls of Jericho
Good living in Ugarit
The world's first alphabet
Tyre and Sidon
Queen of the seas
The silent stones of Malta
Their faith moved mountains
The megaliths of Morbihan
Mari, the wonder city
Island of 8,000 towers
A pre-christian Madonna
Linear B
Life in the Mycenaean age
The cult of Apollo
The Delphic oracle
The Pythia replies
Olympias, Zeus and Alexander
Latest news of Dodona
Atlantis, fact or fiction
City beneath the sands
The civilization of Tartessus
The Guanches
The mask of T'aot'ieh
A man named Siddhartha
Gandhara and the Buddha image
The cave temples of Tun-huang
The silk road
The treasure of the Oxus
The Scythians
Company for the king
Kings, concubines and horses
King Solomon's furnaces
In quest of Ophir
The bronzes of Benin
River of a thousand eyes
Men of Maize
Cities in the jungle
Tikal, the enigma
Behold, all things are become new.
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