08.02.2024, 09:48
The Discovery of Ancient Civilizations [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B000CBOR6U | 2002 | 12 hours and 8 minutes | MP3 64 kbps | 336 MB
A series of flamboyant adventurers and archaeologists discovered the earliest civilizations and deciphered mysterious ancient scripts during the 19th century, before archaeology became the science it is today. This course tells the story of these legendary discoverers and the sites they found and excavated, including: Napoleon in ancient Egypt Sir Austen Henry Layard at Nineveh Heinrich Schliemann in Homeric Troy Arthur Evans at Knossos. The series concentrates on the explorers themselves. It is designed chronologically and includes a cast of fascinating characters such as circus strongman Giovanni Belzoni and French epigrapher Jean Francois Champollion, and a series of remarkable archaeologists including Paul Emile Botta, Howard Carter, John Lloyd Stephens, and Emil de Sarzec.