Wilhelm Dörpfeld
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Wilhelm Dörpfeld was a German architect and archaeologist, a pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects. He is famous for his work on Bronze Age
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
The tomb of Wilhelm Dörpfeld in Vlychos, Nydri, Lefkas island, as it was in 1943, before a tombstone was put on top of it
The "Treasury of Atreus" is the most impressive of the "tholos" tombs at Mycenae
Homer's Ithaca
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Ithaca was, in Greek mythology, the island home of the hero Odysseus. The specific location of the island, as it was described in Homer's Odyssey, is a matter for debate. Modern Ithaca has traditional
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
…died in 1940 on the island of Lefkada, Greece, where he had a house, believing that the bay of Nidri on the eastern coast of Lefkada was the historical Ithaca, home of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. He developed a method of dating archaeological sites by the strata in which objects were found and the type of…
Odysseus meets his father Laertes on Ithaca (Theodoor van Thulden, 1600)