Discovery! : unearthing the new treasures of archaeology / edited by Brian M. Fagan.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index.

I. Discoveries from the Ice Age;
II.Tombs, Graves and Mummies;
III. Treasures of Ancient Art;
IV. Lost Cities and Towns;
V. Enigmas of Ritual and Religion;
VI. Discoveries from the Deep;
VII. Scientific Discoveries.

Discoveries from the Ice Age -- New Evidence from Africa: Rewriting the Story of Human Origins / Peter Andrews -- The Mystery of the Skulls from Dmanisi, Georgia / Chris Stringer -- The First Europeans and the Pit of the Bones at Atapuerca, Spain / Chris Stringer -- Boxgrove: The Oldest Human Fossils in Britain / Chris Stringer -- The 'Hobbit': An Unknown Human Relative? / Chris Stringer -- Tombs, Graves and Mummies -- The Iceman: A 5,000-Year-Old Murder Victim? / Chris Scarre -- The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen: Men of Stonehenge / Andrew P. Fitzpatrick -- New Revelations from the Pyramids of Giza / Zahi Hawass -- The Tomb of Tutankhamun's Mother? An 18th Dynasty Chamber in the Valley of the Kings / Zahi Hawass -- Pharaoh's Children: The Tomb of the Sons of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings / Kent R. Weeks -- New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara / Alain Zivie -- Where the living Feasted with the Dead: The Royal Tombs of Qatna, Syria / Peter Pfalzner -- The Royal Tombs of Nimrud, Iraq: The Treasures of Assyrian Queens / Joan Dates -- The Great Ryzhanovka Barrow: An Intact Burial of a Scythian Nobleman / Sergey Skory and Jan Chochorowski -- The Valley of the Golden Mummies, Egypt / Zahi Hawass -- Bodies from the Bog: New Insights into life and Death in Pagan Celtic Ireland / Eamonn P. Kelly -- Warriors, Musicians and Acrobats at the Tomb of the First Emperor of China / Zhang Yinglan -- The Spitalfields Lady: The Finest Roman Grave Ever Found in London / Christopher Thomas -- Moche Tombs at Dos Cabezas, Peru / Christopher B. Donnan -- Power and Prestige: Middle Sican Elite Tombs of North Coastal Peru / Izumi Shimada -- The Red Queen and Other New Maya Tombs / George Stuart -- Chachapoya: Mummies in the Cloud Forest of Peru / Adriana Von Hagen -- Inca Mummies: Child Sacrifice on Andean Peaks / Johan Reinhard -- The Prittlewell Prince: An Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial / Ian Blair -- Treasures of Ancient Art -- At the Origins of Art: New Discoveries of Decorated Caves / Jean Clottes -- Black Pharaohs: A Cachette of Statues from Kerma, Sudan / Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle -- A Celtic Warrior Prince from Glauberg, Germany / Holger Baitinger and Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann -- Artistic Splendours from the Greek and Roman World / Mark Merrony -- Turkey's Pompeii: The Magnificent Mosaics of Zeuqrna / Robert Early -- The Maize God and the Mythology of Kings: Maya Paintings at San Bartolo, Guatemala / William A. Saturno -- Torcs, Coins and Gold Cups: Ancient Hoards from Britain / Jeremy D. Hill -- The Hoxne Treasure: A Late Roman Hoard / Catherine Johns -- Spillings: The World's Biggest Viking Silver Hoard / Dan Carlsson -- Portraits in Pottery: Ceramic Vessels from Lake Titicaca / Antti Korpisaari and Martti Parssinen -- Statues of the Buddha from Qingzhou, China / Jan Stuart -- Lost Cities -- Caral: The Oldest Civilization in Peru and the Americas / Ruth Shady -- Pyramid City, Giza / Mark Lehner -- Jinsha: Changing the Map of Ancient China / Jay Xu -- Towards a New Jerusalem / Roberta L. Harris -- Saxon London, Concealed Beneath the City Streets / Robert Cowie -- Jamestown: The Fort that was the Birthplace of the United States of America / William M. Kelso -- Enigmas of Ritual and Religion -- Carved Creatures from the Dawn of Agriculture: Gobekli Tepe, Turkey / Klaus Schmidt -- Secrets Revealed at Britain's Henges / Mike Pitts -- The Nebra Sky Disc: The Oldest Representation of the Heavens / Harald Meller -- Helmets and War-Trumpets: A Ritual Hoard from Tintignac, France / Christophe Maniquet -- Symbols of Religion and Power: The Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan / Saburo Sugiyama -- Moche Ritual Sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna, Peru / Steve Bourget -- Discoveries from the Deep -- The World's Oldest Boats, from Abydos, Egypt / Matthew Douglas Adams and David O'connor -- Alexandria Underwater: Greek Cities Beneath the Sea in Egypt / Filanck Goddio -- The Ancient Port and Ships of Pisa / Stefano Bruni -- HMS Pandora: The Ship Sent to Find the Bounty Mutineers / Peter Gesner -- Submarine and Ironclad: American Civil War Wrecks / Robert S. Neyland -- Scientific Discoveries -- DNA and Archaeology / Brian M. Fagan -- Ice Ages, Floods and Droughts: The Impact of Climate Change in the Past / Brian M. Fagan -- Ancient Wine and Beer / Patrick E. McGovern -- Medical Science and Archaeology / Charlotte Roberts -- Ancient Writing: Early Hieroglyphs from Abydos, Egypt / Toby Wilkinson -- Ancient Writing: Biblical Inscriptions / Roberta L. Harris -- Ancient Writing: China's 'Dead Sea Scrolls' / Wang Tao -- Ancient Writing: New Advances in Maya Decipherment / David Stuart -- Ancient Writing: Deciphering the Knotted Strings of the Incas / Gary Urton -- The Cascajal Block: The New World's Oldest Writing / Michael D. Coe.