Lost Civilizations

The romance of the buried past — archaeology, myth, and the literature of cultures swallowed by time.

Ruins, relics, and vanished worlds

In this collection

• Exile from Space
• A Rogue's Life
• The Passing of King Arthur
• May Day
• The Bear, the Dog, and the Cat
• The Countess Goerlitz
• Rome: at the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves of Shelley and Keats
• The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt
• The Brigand of Radicofani
• In the Droving Days
• The City in the Sea
• Fontainebleau
• The Joyous Wanderer
• The Truce of Piscataqua
• Nominalist and Realist
• Memoirs of a Cavalier
• The Lord's Prayer on a Coin
• Henry Phipps
• Life on the Mississippi, Part 7
• The Three Little Birds
• The Anthropologist at Large
• The Word of Borgia
• The Children of the Castle
• A Reversal
• Hermes Trismegistus
• Ozymandias
• Love Among the Ruins

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