Fagan Brian M. Quest for the Past. Great Discoveries in Archaeology

Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc., 1988. — 300 p. — ISBN: 0-88133-344-1.This revised second edition maintains the objective of the first edition; that is to tell the story of some well-known archaeologists & some remarkable excavations as well as to throw light on some of the ways in which the founders of the discipline unearthed early civilizations, probed the origins of humankind, etc.The quest for the past.
Louis Leakey's valley of bones.
The Makah find their history.
Rerie Millon and the city of Teotihuacan.
Layard of Nineveh.
Heinrich Schliemann and ancient Troy.
Arthur Evans and the Minoans.
Pyramids, pyramidologists, and pyramidiots.
Howard Carter and Tut-ankh-Amun.
Chairman Mao's archaeology.