Ceram C.W. (ed.) Hands on the Past. Pioneer Archaeologists Tell Their Own Story

New York: Schocken Books, 1973. — 434 p. — ISBN: 0-8052-0374-5.Here is a major documentary history of archaeology by the author of Gods, Graves and Scholars.
In collecting the writings of major archaeologists, he not only offers a compendium of significant scientific finds —described in the words of the discoverers — but captures the high adventure involved in more than a century of groundbreaking archaeological work.In Place of an Introduction.
The ideal archaeologist (C. L. Woolley).
How to buy antiquities (C. L. Woolley).
How to steal antiquities (C. M. Lerici).
A strange bargain (C. L. Woolley).
Legalized art robbery.
The complete forger (C. L. Woolley).
The Olympia Convention.
The Book of the Statues.
The foundation of the British Museum (H. Sloane).
A troublesome legacy (H. Walpole).
The controversial bequest of Lord Elgin.
The Treasure of Priam (H. Schliemann).
A stolen treasure (H. Schliemann).
A Mycenaean ruler (H. Schliemann).
Winckelmann in Herculaneum.
The plaster corpses of Pompeii (A. Goldsmidt).
The discovery of the ‘Venus de Milo’ (C. Tarral).
The charioteer of Delphi.
The discovery of the Hermes of Praxiteles (E. Curtius).
The rebuilding of the Stoa (P. Mackendrick).
The London Mithraeum (R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford).
Traces of the Etruscans (G. Dennis).
The Bull of Minos (A. J. Evans).
Reconstruction work at Knossos (A. J. Evans).
Ventris deciphers the Cretan script (W. Taylour).
The Book of the Pyramids.
The tourist and the monuments (A.F. Mariette).
Excavations in Egypt (J.L. Burckhardt).
A visit to Thebes (D.V. Denon).
The opening of a pyramid (G.B. Belzoni).
A cache of mummies at Thebes (G.B. Belzoni).
The temple of Abu Simbel (J.L. Burckhardt).
Coffee at Abu Simbel (A. Edwards).
Appeal by Mr. V. Veronese.
A hoard of royal mummies (G.C. Maspero).
A false interpretation of the hieroglyphs (A. Kircher).
How the Rosette Stone came to the British Museum (T.H. Turner).
Champollion deciphers the hieroglyphs.
A fantastic interpretation of the Great Pyramid (C.P. Smyth).
The underwater tomb (W.F. Petrie).
The discovery of the Amarna tablets (E.A. Budge).
Tutankhamen (H. Carter).
The golden coffin (H. Carter).
The buried pyramid (Z. Goneim).
The Book of the Towers.
A second solution to the cuneiform script (H.C. Rawlinson).
Was Babylon here? (C.J. Rich).
The walls of Babylon (R. Koldewey).
A curious sculpture (R. Koldewey).
Problems at the excavation of Nineveh (P.E. Botta).
Excavations at Nimrud (A.H. Layard).
Discoveries and alarms (A.H. Layard).
The Gilgamesh Epic is found (G. Smith).
Early technical achievements (H.V. Hilprecht).
The royal graves of Ur (C.L. Woolley).
The Book of the Rocks and Valleys.
Digging up Pergamon (C. Humann).
The discovery of the Hamah stones (W. Wright).
To Boghazkoy! (H. Winckler).
Hrozny deciphers the Hittite cuneiform (L. Matous).
Excavations at the Black mountain (H. Bossert).
The royal residence on the 'River of Nymphs' (F.K. Dorner).
The discovery of Ugarit (C.F. Schaeffer).
Solomon's foundries (N. Glueck).
The Dead Sea Scrolls (J.M. Allegro).
The Book of the Steps.
The pyramid of Cholula (A. Von Humboldt).
Travels in the Yucatan (J.M. Waldeck ).
The purchase of a city (J.L. Stephens).
The palace at Palenque (J.L. Stephens).
The elephant in America? (G. Elliot Smith).
The temple pyramid of Tepoxtlan (E. Seler).
A royal tomb at Palenque (A. Ru).
Machu Picchu, the sacred city (H. Bingham).
The bridge of San Luis Rey (V.M. Von Hagen).
A problem of Tihuanacu (A. Posnansky).
New Methods in Archaeology.
Archaeology from the air (O.G. Crawford).
The blue museum (J.-Y. Cousteau).
Atomic physics in archaeology (T.G. Bibby).
The Lerici periscope (C.M. Lerici).
Photogrammetry.
Computer decipherment?