Mask of Agamemnon
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The Mask of Agamemnon is a gold funerary mask which was discovered at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in southern Greece. The mask, displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, has been d
The mask in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens
Portrait of Heinrich Schliemann
The mask in the museum
Heinrich Schliemann
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Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann was a German businessman and an influential archaeologist. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeologica
Heinrich Schliemann (1866)
Schliemann as a young man
The 'Mask of Agamemnon', discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae now exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Sophia Schliemann (née Engastromenos) wearing finds recovered at Hisarlık