How to Observe in Archaeology Suggestions for Travellers in the Near and Middle East

Each traveller will require to provide for his special interests; but for any archaeological work the following things are desirable. Note- books of squared paper. Drawing-block...

Mesopotamian antiquities are nearly always found in Tells, or artificial mounds, which are the sites of ancient towns or temples. The surrounding plain for a distance of several...

1. Study of the pottery of the country, not merely from books but from actual specimens, is an absolutely essential preliminary. Without an acquaintance with this branch of Pale...

The Periods into which the subject must be divided are roughly as follows: I. Prehistoric down to about 1000 B.C. II. Prehistoric Greek down to about 700 B.C. III. Archaic Greek...

[The traveller will find the _Catalogue of the Cyprus Museum_, by J. L. Myres and M. Ohnefalsch-Richter (Oxford, 1899) indispensable for the study of Cypriote Antiquities. Refer...

Travellers are more likely to make new discoveries elsewhere than on the actual sites of ancient towns and villages. In many cases the site is found to be entirely bare of all r...

The hints which it is the object of this volume to convey are not meant for experienced archaeologists. They are rather addressed to those who, while anxious to observe and reco...

The following notes are to be accepted as only a rough and imperfect guide, since no part of Syria, north of Palestine, has been widely or minutely explored, and the archaeology...

As the development of Flint Implements follows more or less the same course in all the districts with which this volume deals, a general description is given here, to avoid repe...

First Prehistoric Age, 8000?-7000? B.C. Cemeteries of round or oval pits on the desert; no towns known. Red faced pottery, often with lustrous black top, earliest with patterns...

Some Hieroglyphic Signs liable to be confused with each other Flint Implements Types of Greek Pottery, &c. Greek Alphabets Asia Minor Pottery types Hittite Inscriptions, &c. Bil...

The aim of the special sections contained in Chapters III-VIII is to describe, not the objects usually to be seen in Museums, but only such things as will be found lying out on...