The Sea-Kings of Crete pdf

A Scottish clergyman, interested in Eastern civilizations in general, and Pharaonic in particular, and authored a collection of books that varied between books on theology, and books based on his extensive and intensive readings of the history of civilizations in the East, and reproduced them.

The Sea-Kings of Crete pdf by James Baikie

The object aimed at in the following pages has been to offer to the general reader a plain account of the wonderful investigations which have revolutionized all ideas as to the antiquity and the level of the earliest European culture, and to endeavour to make intelligible the bearing and significance of the results of these investigations. In the hope that the extraordinary resurrection of the first European civilization may appeal to a more extended constituency than that of professed students of ancient origins, the book has been kept as free as possible from technicalities and the discussion of controverted points; and throughout I have endeavoured to write for those who, while from their school days they have loved the noble and romantic story of Ancient Greece, have been denied the opportunity of a more thorough study of it than comes within the limits of an ordinary education.