Heinrich Himmler | Heinrich Heine | Heinrich Schütz | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi | Heinrich von Kleist | Heinrich Böll | Heinrich Isaac | Heinrich Marschner | Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza | Heinrich Mann | Heinrich Hertz | Heinrich Graetz | Heinrich Böll Foundation | Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters | Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher | Johann Heinrich Lambert | Heinrich von Breymann | Heinrich Finck | Heinrich Zimmer | Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove | Heinrich Wild | Heinrich von Bibra | Heinrich Schenker | Heinrich Nordhoff | Heinrich Leutemann | Heinrich Gustav Magnus | Ernst Heinrich Weber | Wilhelm Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach | Wilhelm Heinrich |
It gives brief, informative biographies of archaeologists like Heinrich Schliemann, Jean-François Champollion, Paul-Émile Botta, and Howard Carter, among others.
Starting with the Troy and Heinrich Schliemann's excavations, the reader is told of accounts of excavations of major centers of the Hellenic world, including the story of Michael Ventris' decipherment of Linear B.
One of the maps made by Thomas Spratt known as "Spratt's Map" was used by archaeologists Heinrich Schliemann, Wilhelm Dorpfeld, and Carl Blegen, which contributed to the discovery of Troy, because the name Troy with a question mark was added by a German professor of classical antiquities working with Spratt over the spot of the real Troy.