Word: schliemann
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...site of the famous shrine. The English, Germans and French all have their particular spots upon which they are now carrying on their researches; while America is being distanced in this praiseworthy effort for the extension of knowledge concerning the relics of ancient art and learning. Dr. Schliemann, the eminent German excavator. has already conferred a name on his native country by his vigorous and successful attempts to throw light on subjects which have remained in darkness for so many centuries...
...Schliemann has gone to Egypt with Dr. Virchow. He is anxious to discover the grave of Alexander the Great, but the place where it is supposed to be is covered by a mosque. Undaunted by this fact, Dr. Schliemann intends to dig a tunnel, or have the whole building moved, after the American method...
...reported that Dr. Schliemann has discovered a Greek temple which he supposes to be the oldest in existence...
...Schliemann, the great archaeologist has signified his intention of bequeathing at his death his valuable collection at Athens to the Ethnological Museum at Berlin...
...continued during January by Professor Frothingham, upon the archaeology of Assyria. The lectures of a man so well known in his department, although perhaps on a less popular branch of the study, are deserving of large attendance. The science so thoroughly developed by Rawlinson and lately by Schliemann and his co-workers has become a common and widely interesting part of human knowledge. Even part of the news of the daily press of late years has been reports of the successes or failures of archaeologists working upper the direction of states or through individual effort...