When Heinrich Schliemann incorrectly identified in 1876 one of the shaft graves at Mycenae as the ""tomb of Agamemnon,"" he revived a myth first created by the eighth-century B.C. inhabitants of the ...
GOLD loot and a bloody ancient family feud make Mycenae, a fortified hill in the Peloponnese, unique among Greece's Bronze Age sites. The visible remains are impressive too—walls made of giant ...
LAST Thursday night will be always regarded as a memorable one in the history of the Society of Antiquaries, when Dr. Schliemann described to an unusually distinguished audience his own and his wife's ...
“Lost and Found: The 9,000 Treasures of Troy,” by Caroline Moorehead.Viking. $24.95. “The Gold of Troy: Searching for Homer’s Fabled City,” by Vladimir Tolstikov and Mikhail Treister. Abrams. 239 ...
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