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
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
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
…for his work on Bronze Age sites around the Mediterranean, such as Tiryns and Hisarlik (the site of the legendary city of Troy), where he continued Heinrich Schliemann's excavations. Like Schliemann, Dörpfeld was an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. While the details of his…
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