Artifact

Appalling.
Even as SciFi, the premise is not enough for a full length book.

But as a misogynist and colonialist novel, it takes many sexust myths for granted and enthusiastically supports the theft, by the United States using heavily armed force, of artifacts from Greece.

Defenders only have the excuse that it's a few decades old and that's how "we" thought, are refuted by characters in the book who opposed this, showing that people in those times objected to the bigotry, so people could have known better, but the author portrays them as obviously foolish for rejecting male and US superiority.

While this is hard science fiction that might turn off some, if you like a good artifact story the you don't want to pass it up. The book might drag to those not interested in science in a few places, but one can skip that to "get back to the action" if you want without losing too much of the story itself (personally I found it fascinating). There is a lot of mystery and action in addition to the hard science I mentioned earlier making it a worthwhile read to more that those interested in hard science fiction