Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940

by Daniel J. Sherman

Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate the tension between the discipline's scientific ambitions and its hunger for media attention.

For well over a century, from Heinrich Schliemann's sensational discoveries at Troy in the 1880s, through the Tutankhamun excavations of the 1920s, to the recent LIDAR-aided uncovering of lost Maya cities, archaeology has made headlines. In this new history of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226835375
• ISBN13: 9780226835372
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.