Many people believe that the nineteenth century was the classic era of archaeological discovery, that we shall never see discoveries like those of Layard at Nineveh and Schliemann at Troy again. They are wrong, for the pace of spectacular archaeological discovery has contained unabated throughout the twentieth century. Arthur Evans dug into the Palace of Minos at Knossos just three years into the new century and found an entire civilization. After a seven-year search, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon unearthed Tutankhamen's tomb, arguably the greatest archaeological discovery of all time. And, only a few years ago, the stupendous graves of the Lords of Sipan in Peru: the honor roll of spectacular finds continues to unfold as we write. - Taken from the Introduction. - from Amzon