Herman Schliemann

Standard Name: Schliemann, Herman

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1870: The German archaeologist Herman Schliemann...

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1870

The German archaeologist Herman Schliemann began to dig at Hissarlik in Turkey, on the site of Mycenean Troy (which he believed to be the Troy of Homer's Iliad).
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
under Schliemann; Mycenae
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

1899-1907: Sir Arthur Evans carried out excavations...

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1899-1907

Sir Arthur Evans carried out excavations at Knossos in Crete, the palace famed in Greek myth as the site of Theseus' victory over the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
5: 148
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
1: 946-7
Beard, Mary. “Builder of Ruins”. London Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2000, pp. 26-7.
26-7

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