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Ancient Ruins and Archaeology
Atlantis, Troy, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, Easter Island, Machu Picchu, Rapa Nui... For hundreds of years, scholars and poets have been caught in the spell of these citadels of mystery. Men through the ages have become obsessed with them and volumes have been written on each; yet in many cases the truth lies hidden in the darkness of unrecorded history. The emergence of arc...more
Hardcover, 294 pages
Published
November 9th 1992
by Barnes & Noble
(first published 1992)
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Light and fun read on a handful of ancient ruins and the body of scholarship concerning them. One does have to ask what authority de Camp claims on this subject, but all the same, it is written with humor and enthusiasm.
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Lyon Sprague de Camp, (Pseudonym: Lyman R. Lyon) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and biographer. In a writing career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred books, including novels and notable works of nonfiction, such as biographies of other important fantasy authors.He was widely regarded as an imaginative and innovative writer and was an important figure in the heyday...more
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