Gods, Graves and Scholars
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Gods, Graves, and Scholars is a popular book by German writer C. W. Ceram about the history of archaeology. First published in 1949, Ceram's book introduced the general reading public to the origin and development of archaeology. It sold extremely well — over 5 million copies have been published in several languages — and remains in print today.
Gods, Graves, and Scholars covers Greek, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, as well as Mexican, Central American, and South American archaeology. It gives brief, informative biographies of archaeologists like Heinrich Schliemann, Jean-François Champollion, Paul-Émile Botta, and Howard Carter, among others.
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- Robert Kanigel: Vintage reading: from Plato to Bradbury: A personal tour of some of the world's best books. Bancroft Press 1998, ISBN 0963124676, p. 116-117 (online copy at Google Books)
- Cornelius Holtorf: Archaeology is a brand!: the meaning of archaeology in contemporary popular culture. Archaeopress 2007, ISBN 9781905739066, p. 68 (online copy at Google Books)
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