If Heinrich Schliemann is around, maybe we'll see if he wants to go too. From Wordnik.com. [Our Idea of a Good Time] Reference
"Schliemann," says Traill, "wanted the treasure to be found in Priam's palace.". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Hoard] Reference
Museum, by the "Schliemann" collection, at twelve o'clock. From Wordnik.com. [The Bed-Book of Happiness] Reference
Her earrings looked like something Schliemann had dug up at Troy. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Schliemann gave a bonus to each workman for every antiquity found. From Wordnik.com. [Insistent Questions] Reference
But more than weather or the calendar prevented Schliemann from digging. From Wordnik.com. [Not A Forgery. How about a Pastiche?] Reference
The remarkable disclosures at Troy encouraged Schliemann to excavate other. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Excavations were also closed on November 26 and 27 while Schliemann was away. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Mask a Hoax?] Reference
Schliemann does not, however, appear to have stopped work of his own volition. From Wordnik.com. [Not A Forgery. How about a Pastiche?] Reference
Schliemann stated that he had excavated objects which in fact he had purchased. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Mask a Hoax?] Reference
Schliemann sneaked his Trojan booty to Athens and subsequently tried to sell it. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Hoard] Reference
The museum's success owes much to its elegant setting in the Schliemann mansion. From Wordnik.com. [At the Museums: Athens' New Coin Museum] Reference
If the mask is genuine, Schliemann is the luckiest archaeologist until Howard Carter. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Mask a Hoax?] Reference
There are obvious motives for Schliemann to have buried and excavated a modern forgery. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Mask a Hoax?] Reference
Schliemann wanted fame more than money, so in 1881 he gave it free to the German people. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Hoard] Reference
In 1871, Schliemann smuggled a spectacular collection of gold Trojan artifacts from Turkey. From Wordnik.com. [An Archaeologist Whips Indy] Reference
Schliemann was quite ready to have duplicates of finds made that he would pass off as genuine. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Mask a Hoax?] Reference
Schliemann, however, made no such remarks in initial reports made immediately after the finds. From Wordnik.com. [Not A Forgery. How about a Pastiche?] Reference
We know that Schliemann hid many of his best finds from the Turkish supervisor at Troy in 1873. From Wordnik.com. [Insistent Questions] Reference
Stress on the moustaches suggests that Schliemann believes them to be the most suspicious detail. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Mask a Hoax?] Reference
William Calder has already taught us a lot about Schliemann, and for this, too, we should be thankful. From Wordnik.com. [Not A Forgery. How about a Pastiche?] Reference
It is certain that Schliemann combined unrelated finds to create larger and more dramatic assemblages. From Wordnik.com. [Insistent Questions] Reference
On a tour of Asia Minor in 1868, Schliemann paid a visit to Frank Calvert, a British consul in Turkey. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Hoard] Reference
"I've learned to doubt everything Schliemann said unless there is independent confirmation," said Calder. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the Mask of Agamemnon] Reference
Schliemann told other probable whoppers: for instance, that he foresaw as a child he'd one day excavate Troy. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Hoard] Reference
Barely second in importance to the discoveries of Schliemann was the Aristotelian treatise on the Constitution of. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
Born the son of a German pastor in 1822, the young Schliemann set himself up as a merchant in St. Petersburg, Russia. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Hoard] Reference
Once he discovered the gold and silver objects he called Priam's Treasure, however, Schliemann smuggled them to Greece. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Mask a Hoax?] Reference
Schliemann had set out to find the wealth of the Atreids, but there is no evidence that he resorted to salting his finds. From Wordnik.com. [Not A Forgery. How about a Pastiche?] Reference
"I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon," Schliemann is said to have telegrammed a Greek newspaper on first seeing the mask. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the Mask of Agamemnon] Reference
Anthony Snodgrass of Cambridge University, in a review of my Schliemann biography, recently called him "profoundly dishonest.". From Wordnik.com. [Insistent Questions] Reference
Schliemann was speaking the truth; the businessman-turned-archaeologist had shown that Homer's epics may have been based in fact. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the Mask of Agamemnon] Reference
Fig. 24. -- (a) and (b) Two Mycenæan pots (after Schliemann). (a) The so-called "owl-shaped" vase is really a representation of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Given nine full days and nights, Schliemann was certainly capable of finding a way of adding the Agamemnon mask to the mud of grave V. From Wordnik.com. [Insistent Questions] Reference
Schliemann made other mistakes, most notably digging massive trenches right to bedrock that destroyed much of what he was looking for. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Hoard] Reference
(But recall that Schliemann was happy to attribute heroic qualities to even what we today consider to be the most unsightly of the masks.). From Wordnik.com. [Not A Forgery. How about a Pastiche?] Reference
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