Summarizes the results of archaeological studies associated with Agency of Transportation projects between 1973 and 1994.

Introduces one of the original disaster stories and the startling discoveries that have been made.

"The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis for Egyptology. The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered...

Describes the discovery by Alpine hikers near the Austrian-Italian border of the frozen body of a man who, after careful examination, was found to be more than 5,000 years old.

Draws from over thirty years of excavation and research to present an account of the Mayan metropolis of Tikal in Guatemala, from 800 B.C. to the late ninth century.