Download or read book The Future of the Past written by Alexander Stille and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when technological innovation and globalization threaten to destroy humankind's greatest cultural legacies, those same changes also provide our best hope in preserving that inheritance. In a series of portraits, the author takes us from the Great Sphinx of Egypt to the banks of the Ganges, from the echoing halls of the Vatican to the information-glutted U.S. National Archives, and introduces us to the scholars, preservationists, and eccentrics working to preserve the world's historical riches.