Archaeology on the Trail of Legends and Myths

15 hrs. 21 min.

Popular Science

Author German Malinichev

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

When you hear the word “archaeology,” you mostly think of excavations in Pompeii, the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, Troy found by G. Schliemann, and maybe the Scythian burial mounds… However, in this new book by German Malinichev you’ll learn that archaeologists sought (and in many cases succeeded in finding) real traces of many other—sometimes legendary—cities, heroes, and forgotten historical eras: not only the location of the throne of the Queen of Sheba or the famous Cretan Labyrinth, but also the city of Kitezh, and even Eden—the biblical paradise! Let this book about great discoveries become a discovery for the reader as well.

Contents:

The Phenomenon of Heinrich Schliemann (Instead of a foreword)
The Place of Eden Has Finally Been Found!
Schliemann from Cincinnati
Not a palace, but a columbarium—what the Knossos palace in Crete is
The Splendor and Poverty of “gold-filled” Mycenae
Where was the throne of the Queen of Sheba?
The Rise and Fall of Nan Madol
Spartacus—son of the Slavs
A Round Dispatch from Sandatimuva (The Story of Deciphering the Phaistos Disc)
Grand Gold of the Little Pharaohs
Where the great conqueror sleeps
A village teacher versus Napoleon III
An island where the goddess of invisibility set foot
And again the titans took up battle with the gods…
The Legacy of Alexander the Great
The City of Devils
An Altar of Zeus
Glory and Disappointments
Sun-worshippers—builders of the first pyramids (America’s very first city—5 thousand years)
A 10-thousand-year gorge
The City of Asclepius and its three theaters
The Mosaic Zoo of Maximian and the Tiberian grotto-nymphaeum
A ghostly, elusive African Troy
Where Iphigenia ran from Tauris
The clay army of Emperor Shi
Pyramids! They’re everywhere
Unexcavated Troy
The changeable fate of Nimrud Daga
Where did you swim, Odysseus?
The Sphinx continues to pose riddles
The mystery of the gilded skull and the name of its owner
Moscow wasn’t built overnight (and how old is it?)
Who opened Australia?
A lost and found temple
We saw the foundations of the city of Kitezh
Three secrets of Nefertiti
A visit of a Scythian princess to Moscow
Was beautiful Helen truly beautiful?
The necropolis of the Amazons
Cinderella, where are you from?
The secret sympathies and antipathies of Homer
The Trojan wars numbered forty-seven