Priam's Treasure
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Priam's Treasure is a cache of gold and other artifacts discovered by classical archaeologists Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlık on the northwestern coast of modern Turkey in the late
Part of Priam's treasure
Sophia Schliemann (née Engastromenou) wearing the "Jewels of Helen" excavated by her husband, Heinrich Schliemann, in Hisarlık (photograph taken ca. 1874)
The "big" diadem in modern exhibition
The "small" diadem
Heinrich Schliemann
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Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann was a German businessman and an influential archeologist. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological
Priam's Treasure
…Priam's Treasure is a cache of gold and other artifacts discovered by classical archaeologists Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlık on the northwestern coast of modern Turkey in the late 19th century. The majority of the artifacts are currently in the Pushkin Museum in…
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.