DR SCHLIEMANN’S DISCOVERIES
With respect to Dr Schliemann’s discoveries at Mycenae, M Stephani, the Russian saTant, has expressed opinions which hare attracted considerable attention in Germany The learned academician by no means disputes the great antiquity of many of the individual objects unearthed by Dr Schliemann, but ho holds that the remains include objects belong, infi to very different eras of history He contends that the date of the tombs must be determined by the latest products of art of the industry which have been discovered in them The seal ring is especially important in thf # respect, as according to him it is executed in the new style of the new Persian art He is of opinion that the tombs originated with the barbarians who invaded Greece in the third century before Christ, and made the citadel of Agamemnon one of the chief centres of their dominion Here he believes they buried their chiefs and decorated the tombs partly with such ancient relics of an earlier date that had fallen into their hands, and partly with object 8 produce i by themselves
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Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 3 July 1880, Page 2
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182DR SCHLIEMANN’S DISCOVERIES Temuka Leader, Issue 269, 3 July 1880, Page 2
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