The Story of Archaeology tells the thrilling and fascinating tale of modern archaeology from its earliest beginnings to the present through 50 chronologically arranged profiles of iconic excavations - from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Death Pit of Ur, from Machu Picchu to the Mary Rose. Some of these are discoveries of the swashbuckling type, such as lost tombs filled with precious artefacts, but others consist of bricks and pieces of flint and pottery which have, in the story they tell, proved to be yet rarer and more valuable.
