A compellingly readable text is complemented with hundreds of fascinating color photos that show archaeological digs, freshly excavated buildings and monuments, ancient art and artifacts, and even the lava-covered bodies of men and women found in ancient Pompeii's ruins. The discoveries examined in this handsomely illustrated book range in time from the Ice Age Altamira cave paintings in Spain (circa 12,000 B.C.E.) to the deep-sea exploration of the ocean liner Titanic, which sank in the Atlantic in 1912. A total of 15 engrossing sites are shown and discussed, including--
Mohenjo-Daro, an ancient city in northern India, one of the world's first cities and center of the Indus Valley civilization (2600 B.C.E.)
The Tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt, discovered in the twentieth century, and filled with a pharaoh's priceless treasures (1322 B.C.E.)
Terracotta Warriors, hundreds of warrior statues the served as guardians of a Chinese emperor's tomb (210 B.C.E.)
Pompeii, the flourishing ancient Roman city that was unexpectedly destroyed by a volcanic eruption (79)
Machu Picchu, lost city of the Incas, high in the Andes (1440)
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