From the FOREWORD
In an older generation, especially among the writers of the more lurid types of fiction, it was an accepted axiom that "Dead men tell no tales!" But this was before the great era of modern archeology had impressed its findings on the general public, and indeed before most of those discoveries had been made.
Our generation knows better. Dead men do tell tales, and marvelous and wonderful are the stories they bring to us. By means of an archeological resurrection, the great men of antiquity are with us again. Once more we hear the accounts of their fascinating lives and adventures, and read again the records of their culture. The tongueless tombs of the distant past have suddenly become vocal, and this mighty chorus of the dead great has forced us to revise many of our once cherished opinion.
