Well illustrated introductory essays on a selection of fabled lands, megaliths, Easter Island statues, past empires with only archeological remains, pyramids, the 1908 Siberian blast and the green past of Sahara.

Contents

IN SEARCH OF FABLED LANDS
- Voyage to Atlantis
- The search for El Dorado, land of gold
- The land of the Queen of Sheba
- Who really discovered the New World

AGE OF THE MEGALITHS
- Strange stones of western Europe
- Sould-statues of Corsica
- The secrets of Stonehenge
- The giants of Easter Island

CITIES OF MYSTERY
- Tenotihuacán, city of the gods
- The lost empire of the Indus Valley
- The silent stones of Tiahuanaco
- The world's first cities
- The last refuge of the Incas

SECRETS OF THE PYRAMIDS
- The men who built the Tower of Babel
- Pyramids in the Americas
- Inside the pyramids of the pharaohs

VANISHED PEOPLES, FORGOTTEN PLACES
- When the Sahara was green
- The Scythians, fierce horsemen of the steppes
- Zimbabwe, Africa's lost civilization
- Splendour in the jungle at Angkor
- The Olmecs, a race of precursors
- The magnificent realm of the Mayas
- Enigmatic messages of the Nazcas
- Did a black hole hit Siberia?

Gazetteer of mysterious sites around the world