Introduction / Michael Ledger-Lomas and David Gange -- Troy / David Gange and Rachel Bryant Davies -- Jerusalem / Simon Goldhill -- Nineveh / Tim Larsen -- Pithom / David Gange -- Babylon / Michael Seymour -- Sodom / Astrid Swenson -- Bethlehem / Eitan Bar-Yosef -- Ephesus / Michael Ledger-Lomas -- Rome / Jane Garnett and Anne Bush.
Summary
"The history of archaeology is generally told as the making of a secular discipline. In nineteenth-century Britain, however, archaeology was enmeshed with questions of biblical authority and so with religious as well as narrowly scholarly concerns"-- Provided by publisher.
