Word: schliemann
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Schliemann's children are named respectively Andromache and Agamenon...
...Schliemann has received the consent of the Greek government to make excavations at the north-west of Athens, near the ancient academy, where he hopes to find the grave of Pericles...
...Schliemann began this year at Hissarlik a new series of excavations, which until recently did not uncover anything of special importance. But it is just announced that he has been again successful. In the lower portion of the hill of Hissarlik he has opened a series of holes, corridors and vaults which, according to his confident belief, are ruins of the citadel of ancient Pergamos. Dr. Schliemann adds that the researches he has recently been prosecuting have convinced him that the views he has hitherto held respecting the sight of Ilium, and of many of the relics he formerly discovered...
...funny man of the Times thus moralizes over Dr. Schliemann's recent discoveries: "When Dr. Schliemann digs for any particular thing, whether it is a city, a tomb, or a set of jewelry, he is morally certain to find it. He dug for Noah's ark in the Hill of Hissarlik, and he found it on the second day, not more than seventy feet below the surface. Later excavations have laid bare the entire ark, though, thanks to the great discoverer's precaution in putting a board fence around it and in compelling his workmen to dig with their eyes...