Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History

by Patrick Hunt

  Zanker, Paul. Pompeii: Public and Private Life. Translated by D. L. Schneider. Revealing Antiquity Series, vol 11. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

  DEAD SEA SCROLLS

  Abegg, Martin G., and Peter Flint. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible: The Oldest Known Bible Translated for the First Time into English. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

  Charlesworth, James. Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Random House, 2006.

  Davies, Philip, George Brooke, and Phillip Callaway. The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls. London: Thames and Hudson, 2002.

  Eisenman, Robert H., and Michael Wise. The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered: 50 Key Documents Withheld for Over 35 Years. New York: Penguin, 1993.

  Flint, Peter. The Dead Sea Scrolls: An Essential Guide. New York: Abingdon Press, 2007.

  Hirschfeld, Yizhar. Qumran in Context: Reassessing the Archaeological Evidence. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004.

  Schiffman, Lawrence. Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls. Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Random House, 1995.

  Schuller, Eileen. The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned? Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2006.

  Vanderkam, James, and Peter Flint. The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance for Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus and Christianity. Reprint, San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004.

  Vermes, Geza, ed. and trans. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. 1962. Rev. ed. New York: Penguin, 2004.

  AKROTIRI AT THERA

  Casson, Lionel. The Ancient Mariners. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

  Cline, Eric H. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean. BAR-International Series 591. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1994.

  Doumas, Christos. Thera: Pompeii of the Ancient Aegean: Excavations at Akrotiri 1967-1979. London: Thames and Hudson, 1983.

  Forsyth, Phyllis Young. Thera in the Bronze Age. American University Studies IX: History. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999.

  Manning, Sturt. A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the Mid Second Millennium BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1999.

  Marinatos, Nanno. “Thera.” In An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology (L-Z), edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond, 1097-98. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.

  Marinatos, Spyridon. Excavations at Thera 1-7. Athens: Greek Archaeological Service, 1967-76.

  Palyvou, Clairy. Akrotiri, Thera: An Architecture of Affluence 3,500 Years Old. Prehistory Monographs 15. Philadelphia, Pa.: INSTAP (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) Academic Press, 2005.

  Pellegrino, Charles. Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey to the Fabled Lost Civilization. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

  Shelmerdine, Cynthia, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

  OLDUVAI GORGE

  Isaac, Glynn Llywelyn, ed. Human Origins: Louis Leakey and the East African Evidence (Perspectives on Human Evolution). W. A. Benjamin, 1976.

  Johanson, Donald, and Maitland Edey. Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind. New York: Touchstone Books, 1981.

  Johanson, Donald, with Blake Edgar. From Lucy to Language. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

  Klein, Richard. The Dawn of Human Culture. New York: Wiley, 2002. Leakey, Mary D. Olduvai Gorge: My Search for Early Man. New York: Collins, 1979.

  Morrell, Virginia. Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind’s Beginnings. New York: Touchstone Books, 1995.

  Schick, Kathy D., and Nicholas Toth. Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technology. Trafalgar Square, 1994.

  TOMB OF 10,000 WARRIORS

  Fu Tianchou, ed. Wonders from the Earth: The First Emperor’s Underground Army. Rev. ed. San Francisco: China Books and Periodicals, 1989.

  Giusso, R. W. L., and Catherine Pagani with David Miller. The First Emperor of China. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1989.

  Ho, Erling. “China’s Great Enigma: What’s Inside the Unexcavated Tomb of Emperor Shihuangdi?” Archaeology 54, no. 5 (September/ October 2001).

  Klein, Julia. “The Rise of China.” Archaeology 59, no. 4 (July/August 2006).

  Kwang-Chih Chang et al. (Sarah Allan, Ping Fang Xu, Liancheng Lu and Wangping Shao). The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective. New Haven: Yale University Press/New World Press, 2002.

  Li Liu and Xingcan Chen. State Formation in Early China. Duckworth Debates in Archaeology. London: Duckworth Publishing, 2003.

  Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty. Translated by Burton Watson. Renditions. New York: Columbia University Press; Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993.

  Xiaoneng Yang, ed. New Perspectives on China’s Past: Twentieth-Century Chinese Archaeology. New Haven: Yale University Press/Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, 2004.

  ———, ed. The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People’s Republic of China. Washington, DC: National Gallery, 1999. Esp. pp. 366-87.

  Yuan Zhongyi. Terra Cotta Warriors. Beijing: People’s China Publishing House, 1996.

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