Word: eretria
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...work of excavation has been carried on principally at Argive Heraeum and Eretria, in both of which places discoveries of a most interesting nature and scientific value were made. Professor Waldstein would rank these excavations with those at Olympia at Epidaurus, and on the Athenian Acropolis, and prospectively also with those at Delphi. The climax of research was the unearthing of the beehive tombs of the Mycenaean period, which had been sought in vain for several years. The vases found therein were nearly all in perfect preservation and the positions of the bones found massed together would indicate that...
...general topics connected with classical archaeology, and the collection of inscriptions, vases, reliefs, and the like to which the school has access, are made the subjects of special study. Some time is given each year to excavation. In the past few years excavations have been made at Icaria, Plataea, Eretria, Sicyon and Argos; and a number of interesting discoveries have been made. The site of Icaria has been determined and a number of inscriptions and pieces of sculpture have been found there...
Professor Richardson of Dartmouth College delivered a lecture last evening on the Excavation of the American School at Eretria...
Professor Richardson has been president of the American School at Athens for the past year and has been a member of the party, which has made the recent excavations. The lecturer told of the great privations which the party had undergone on their journey from Athens to Eretria; they were obliged to go by sea owing to a terrible snow storm which was raging at the time. Then followed an outline of the history of Eretria. After this, stereopticon views illustrated the accounts of the excavations made. Just outside the town of Eretria the party came upon great blocks...
Classical Club. The Excavations of the of the American School at Eretria...