INTERESTING EXCAVATION AT MYCENAE.
The excavations commenced by Dr. .Schliemann at Mycen;v are still being energetically carried on, and continue every day to bring to light fiesh objects of great arclwological and anthropological interest. The entire terrain around the town is full of tomb,* belonging to an epoch antecedent (o Homer. These pre-Homenc bepnlclues aie cat in the solid rock and carefuily formed in legulai compartments, with an area of irom thirty-five to forty square metres. In these chambers the dead were laid without being covered with earth ; nor were they cremated, as at the time of Homer. Amongst the numerous objects discovered at Mycenae, in the course of the latest diggings, are articles of glass, crystal, and ivory, besides precious stones with engravings of animals charmingly executed. These articles throw a flood of light on a civilisation dating a thousand years before Christ. By their generally Oriental character they prove that the ancient decks received from the East not only the raw materials of their first works of art, bnt the art of symbolic representation itself.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 318, 21 November 1888, Page 4
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177INTERESTING EXCAVATION AT MYCENAE. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 318, 21 November 1888, Page 4
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