The book unravels the story of the discovery of Nineveh, the fabulous city whose location was shrouded in mystery for centuries.

The luck of Nineveh: Archaeology's great adventure

History

Arnold C. Brackman

Ancient Civilizations

McGraw-Hill Inc.,US

This book is the first analysis-in-depth of the collapse of the Indonesian Communist movement in 1965 within the context of world affairs. The murder of the Indonesian general staff and the mass murders that followed are sculptured in fascinating detail against the background of the mephitic, torchlight era of the Sukarno regime at that time. The Communist-oriented putsch developed on the night of September 30, 1965, when the Indonesian Communist Party―the oldest in Asia―had attained the zenith of its power and influence as the biggest Communist movement in the world after China and Russia. When Sukarno, the Communists, and a group of “progressive, revolutionary officer” struck, the Anglo-American allies were standing back to back on the rim of the South China Sea. In Vietnam, to the north, the Americans and their Asian allies were trying to hold the tide; in Malaysia, to the south, the British and their Pacific allies were trying to contain Sukarno. Both sought to blunt the Jakarta-Peking axis.

Communist Collapse in Indonesia

Rules & Procedures

W.W.Norton&Company

Rear cover notes: "Nineveh. The very name conjures up images of shining temples, elaborate human sacrifices, golden idols, and ivory thrones. The walls of Nineveh were 200 feet high and wide enough to allow chariots to drive three abreast. For six centuries it was the most notorious and powerful city in the world. Yet after its demise in 600 B.C. it disappeared from sight, and its exact location remained a mystery for twenty-five centuries - until Austen Henry Layard, the colorful pioneering archaeologist, rediscovered it in the 1840s. The Luck of Nineveh unravels the story of that discovery in spellbinding detail: how Layard, an eccentric Englishman fascinated by the Near East, set out single-handedly to uncover the fabled Biblical civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. It tells how Layard selected a mound - in a site that had been unsuccessfully probed for a decade - put his shovel to the earth, and in twenty minutes hit a wall. Within twenty-four hours he had discovered not one but two palaces. The news of Nineveh's discovery electrified Europe, and overnight Layard became a celebrity. Inspired or just lucky, he went on to discover dazzling riches and art treasures, as well as Asshurbanipal's incredible library - a collection of nearly 40,000 cuneiform tablets invaluable to scholars for centuries to come."

The Luck of Nineveh: In Search of the Lost Assyrian Empire

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S.

The Search for the Gold of Tutankhamen

Howard Carter's search of the tomb of the Egyptian Kings.

Pocket

The Search for the Gold of Tut Ankhamen

The other Nuremberg: The untold story of the Tokyo war crimes trials

Asia

Morrow

The Dream of Troy

Mason & Lipscomb

The gold of Tutankhamen

Kamal El Mallakh

Optimum

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