Sir Arthur Evans and Heinrich Schliemann Word Count: 302 History has brought forward the case of two well known historians‚ Sir Arthur Evans and Heinrich Schliemann who have been known for the artifacts from Minoan culture and Mycenaean culture. Both these historians have been known to have made numerous alterations to the artifacts. However it is also crucial to note here that all the changes that have been made to the artifacts have had a valid background and rationale and both these individuals
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held in the Pushkin Museum of Moscow‚ Russia be returned to its rightful owners‚ Turkey. The treasure was excavated by Heinrich Schliemann on the 31st of May 1883 at Hissarlik in North West Turkey. This site is also known as the site of ancient Troy. Schliemann did not originally have a permit at the time to excavate and subsequent agreements that followed between Schliemann and the Turkish government were based upon the principal of equal sharing of any items considered of a historical value.
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been one of great significance. The turn of the 8th Century saw the writing of the Iliad from the Ancient Greek writer‚ Homer‚ which was roughly 3‚000 years ago. Heinrich Schliemann‚ a wealthy German business‚ dedicated his energy and considerable fortune to discovering the Troy Homer describes in the Iliad. By using the writings‚ Schliemann was able to locate the site of the Ancient city of Troy. Manfred Korfmann‚ a German archaeologist‚ interested in the city of Troy itself‚ set out to find out the
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"Archaeology has proved the historicity of the Trojan War." Discuss " he [Heinrich Schliemann] found layers of ruins and two bore unmistakable signs of violent destruction. One of these layers‚ the seventh according to more recent excavators‚ was no doubt the city of Priam and Hector. The historicity of the Homeric tale had been demonstrated archaeologically." - M.I. Finley‚ the World of Odysseus Introduction The Trojan War and its characters are detailed in the writings of Homer‚ Vergil
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the area up then‚ he asked for some popcorn kernels and put them close to the Magnetron and they popped minutes later‚ so then the microwave was created about 20 years later through many mistakes. In “Lost Cities‚ Lost Treasure” a man named Heinrich Schliemann was digging in the ground of a turkish city‚ seeking the lost city of Troy and when he was he did not have the money to excavate the area. Then‚ he found a british archaeologist named Frank Calvert and he owned a site that might hold the lost
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that have had a part in the discovery of the city of Troy. Some include‚ Frank Calvert‚ Heinrich Schliemann‚ William Dorpfield‚ Carl Belgen and Manfred Korfman. Frank Calvert was a British archeologist. He started his work in the town of Hissarlik in Turkey. He was positive the city of Troy was located beneath the city. Seven yeas later after Frank Calvert’s arrival‚ the German archeologist‚ Heinrich Schliemann commenced his
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happen(Wright 33). Heinrich Schliemann felt that he connected with the Trojan War from a young age when his father gave him a book about it. Schliemann’s excavations uncovered ruins of many cities around the area that is now modern-day Turkey‚ including evidence of a large Greek kingdom‚ “very capable of waging such a war as Homer describes.” (Stewart 25). Other remains they found include skeletons‚ sling bullets and evidence of a great fire. These discoveries excited Schliemann and many other historians
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"Lost Cities‚ Lost Treasure." An adventurer in 1871 named Heinrich Schliemann was seeking the lost land of Troy. Schliemann came across a British archaeologist named Frank Calvert who owned part of a site in Turkey. Calvert had Schliemann fund and share his work becasue he did not have enough money to dig there. This was Calvert’s mistake. The discovery he made from his mistake of inviting Schliemann into his work was the disrespect Schliemann showed toward the artifacts that laid undisturbed for centuries
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and ruthless demi-gods capable of changing the fate of a war in his story the ‘Iliad’‚ are all nice stories yet they can’t actually be proven. But what evidence do we have that could support these mythical legends? Archaeologists such as Calvert‚ Schliemann‚ Dorpfeld‚ Korfmann and historians such as Thucydides have established some provable ground for the Trojan War. Written sources suggesting the Trojan War is real are in scarce amounts‚ the main source is Homers ‘Iliad’. Homers ‘Iliad’ describes
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environment. In the passage‚ “Lost Cities‚ Lost Treasures” two archeologists Heinrich Schliemann and Frank Calvert were digging for artifacts and the completely destroyed an ancient city that could have been observed in more detail by other archeologists. Calvert and Schliemann were being so careless and dug down too far that they destroyed ancient Troy. Now no one can observe the ancient city of Troy because Calvert and Schliemann made a mistake. For example‚ imagine a forest getting dug up for artifacts
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