"The text of this edition follows that of the revised edition published in 1967, with minor emendations, and with the addition of lists of further reading, by Ian Kinney, first published in Penguin Books' 1974 and 1979 reprints...This Folio edition also includes a prologue, taken from Ceram's 'A picture history of archaeology' (...Thames and Hudson, 1958); and an additional section 'The book of the lions', comprising extracts from Ceram's Narrow Pass, Black Mountain: the discovery of the Hittite Empire(...Victor Gollancz...1956) -t.p. verso.

Includes bibliography and index.

Translation from the German.