1. Archaeology’s Big Bang
2. “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
3. A Quest for the Trojan War
4. How to Dig
5. First Find Your Site
6. Taking the Search Underwater
7. Cracking the Codes
8. Techniques for Successful Dating
9. Reconstructing Vanished Environments
10. “Not Artifacts but People”
11. Archaeology by Experiment
12. Return to Vesuvius
13. Gournia—Harriet Boyd and the Mother Goddess
14. Thera—A Bronze Age Atlantis?
15. Olympia—Games and Gods
16. Athens’s Agora—Where Socrates Walked
17. Delphi—Questioning the Oracle
18. Kyrenia—Lost Ship of the Hellenistic Age
19. Riace—Warriors from the Sea
20. Rome—Foundation Myths and Archaeology
21. Caesarea Maritima—A Roman City in Judea
22. Teutoburg—Battlefield Archaeology
23. Bath—Healing Waters at Aquae Sulis
24. Torre de Palma—A Farm in the Far West
25. Roots of Classical Culture
26. The Texture of Everyday Life
27. Their Daily Bread
28. Voyaging on a Dark Sea of Wine
29. Shows and Circuses—Rome’s “Virtual Reality”
30. Engineering and Technology
31. Slaves—A Silent Majority?
32. Women of Greece and Rome
33. Hadrian—Mark of the Individual
34. Crucible of New Faiths
35. The End of the World—A Coroner’s Report
36. A Bridge across the Torrent