Eyewitness to Discovery Author:Brian M. Fagan Many people believe that the 19th century was the classic era of archaeological discovery, that we shall never see discoveries like those of Layard at Ninevah and Schliemann at Troy again. They are wrong, for the pace of spectacular archaeological discovery has continued unabated throughout the twentieth century. Arthur Evans dug into the Palace... more » of Ninos at Knossos just three years into the new century and found an entire civilization. After a seven-year search, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon unearthed Tutankhamun's tomb, arguably the greatest archaeological discovery of all time. And, only a few years ago, teh stupendous graves of the Lords of Sipan in Peru: the honor roll of spectacular finds continues to unfold as we write.« less