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In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, "I see wonderful things." Carter's fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall. Written by Eric Cline, an archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, this book traces the history of archaeology from an amateur pursuit to the cutting-edge science it is today by taking the reader on a tour of major archaeological sites and discoveries. Along the way, it addresses the questions archaeologists are asked most often: How do you know where to dig? How are excavations actually done? How do you know how old something is? Who gets to keep what is found? Taking readers from the pioneering digs of the eighteenth century to today's exciting new discoveries, Three Stones Make a Wall is a lively and essential introduction to the story of archaeology.

Civilization, Ancient. --- Antiquities. --- Archaeology --- Archaeologists --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Methodology. --- History. --- 3rd millennium BC. --- Aegean civilizations. --- Amenhotep III. --- Ancient Egypt. --- Ancient Greece. --- Antechamber. --- Anthropologist. --- Archaeological site. --- Archaeology. --- Bedouin. --- Bible. --- Bronze Age. --- Building. --- Burial. --- Cave painting. --- Civilization. --- Clay tablet. --- Coffin. --- Dead Sea Scrolls. --- Dendrochronology. --- Ebla. --- Egyptian hieroglyphs. --- Egyptians. --- Egyptology. --- Epigraphy. --- Excavation (archaeology). --- Exploration. --- Faience. --- Figurine. --- Finding. --- Gold leaf. --- Heinrich Schliemann. --- Herculaneum. --- Herodotus. --- Hittites. --- Hominini. --- Howard Carter. --- Indiana Jones. --- Ingot. --- Ishi. --- Jews. --- John Lloyd Stephens. --- Kennewick Man. --- Khufu. --- Knossos. --- Laetoli. --- Lascaux. --- Leather. --- Looting. --- Machu Picchu. --- Mary Leakey. --- Mastaba. --- Mesoamerica. --- Minoan civilization. --- Moche culture. --- Mosul Museum. --- Mummy. --- Mycenae. --- Mycenaean Greece. --- Nazca Lines. --- Neolithic. --- New Kingdom of Egypt. --- Nimrud. --- Nineveh. --- Old Kingdom of Egypt. --- Olmec. --- Paleolithic. --- Pharaoh. --- Pompeii. --- Pottery. --- Priam's Treasure. --- Qumran. --- Radiocarbon dating. --- Remote sensing. --- Roman Empire. --- Ruler. --- Santorini. --- Scientist. --- Sennacherib. --- Seriation (archaeology). --- Sherd. --- Step pyramid. --- Stone tool. --- Stratigraphy. --- Suggestion. --- Technology. --- The Archaeologist. --- The Various. --- Thutmose III. --- Tikal. --- Tiryns. --- Tomb. --- Trojan War. --- Tutankhamun. --- UNESCO. --- Uluburun shipwreck. --- World Heritage Site. --- World War II. --- Writing. --- Yigael Yadin.

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"In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen? In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages," Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries. A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age-and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece"--

Sea Peoples. --- Bronze age --- Mediterranean Region --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Sea Peoples --- Adad-nirari I. --- Aegean civilizations. --- Akhenaten. --- Alaksandu. --- Alalakh. --- Alashiya. --- Amarna. --- Amenhotep III. --- Ammurapi. --- Amun. --- Amurru (god). --- Ancient Near East. --- Ancient history. --- Archaeology. --- Ashkelon. --- Assyria. --- Babylonia. --- Bronze Age. --- Canaan. --- Carchemish. --- Carl Blegen. --- City-state. --- Clay tablet. --- Climate change. --- Deir el-Bahari. --- Disaster. --- Drought. --- Eastern Mediterranean. --- Egyptians. --- Egyptology. --- Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. --- Epigraphy. --- Famine. --- Geography of Greece. --- Great power. --- Greeks. --- Hatshepsut. --- Hattusa. --- Hazor. --- Hebrews. --- Heinrich Schliemann. --- Hittites. --- Hoard. --- Hurrians. --- Hyksos. --- Iron Age. --- Israelites. --- Kamose. --- Kassites. --- King of Egypt. --- Knossos. --- Kynos. --- Late Bronze Age collapse. --- Mediterranean Sea. --- Megadrought. --- Merneptah. --- Minoan civilization. --- Minoan eruption. --- Minoan pottery. --- Mitanni. --- Mortuary temple. --- Mycenae. --- Mycenaean Civilization. --- Mycenaean Greece. --- Narrative. --- Near East. --- Nefertiti. --- New Kingdom of Egypt. --- Nubia. --- Pharaoh. --- Philistines. --- Phoenicia. --- Pottery. --- Publication. --- Pylos. --- Qatna. --- Ramesses II. --- Suppiluliuma I. --- Suppiluliuma II. --- The Various. --- Thutmose I. --- Thutmose III. --- Tiryns. --- Trade route. --- Trojan War. --- Troy. --- Tudhaliya IV. --- Tudhaliya. --- Tukulti-Ninurta I. --- Tushratta. --- Tutankhamun. --- Ugarit. --- Warfare. --- Washukanni. --- Wilusa. --- Writing. --- Year. --- Yigael Yadin. --- Bronze age. --- Peuples de la Mer. --- To 476. --- Mediterranean Region. --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- History --- Civilisation. --- Histoire