The silent past;

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Lissner, Ivar,, 1909-1967. The silent past; mysterious and forgotten cultures of the world. Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. - New York, Putnam [1962]
374 p. illus. 22 cm. Translation of: Rätselhafte Kulturen. Content notes : Birds of passage -- The walls of Jericho -- Good living in Ugarit -- The world's first alphabet -- Tyre and Sidon -- Queen of the seas -- The silent stones of Malta -- Their faith moved mountains -- The megaliths of Morbihan -- Mari, the wonder city -- Island of 8,000 towers -- A pre-christian Madonna -- Linear B -- Life in the Mycenaean age -- The cult of Apollo -- The Delphic oracle -- The Pythia replies -- Olympias, Zeus and Alexander -- Latest news of Dodona -- Atlantis, fact or fiction -- City beneath the sands -- The civilization of Tartessus -- The Guanches -- The mask of T'aot'ieh -- A man named Siddhartha -- Gandhara and the Buddha image -- The cave temples of Tun-huang -- The silk road -- The treasure of the Oxus -- The Scythians -- Company for the king -- Kings, concubines and horses -- King Solomon's furnaces -- In quest of Ophir -- The bronzes of Benin -- River of a thousand eyes -- Men of Maize -- Cities in the jungle -- Tikal, the enigma -- Behold, all things are become new. * Civilization, Ancient.