Category: History - Ancient
The site of ILIUM described--Excavations in 1870: the City Wall of Lysimachus--Purchase of the site and grant of a _firman_--Arrival of Dr. and Madame Schliemann in 1871, and beginning of the Excavations--The Hill of HISSARLIK, the _Acropolis_ of the Greek Ilium--Search for it...
Further discoveries of fortifications--The _great discovery of the_ TREASURE _on the city wall_--Expedient for its preservation--The articles of the Treasure described--The Shie...
23. CHAPTER XXIII.Further discoveries of fortifications--The _great discovery of the_ TREASURE _on the city wall_--Expedient for its preservation--The articles of the Treasure described--The Shie...
33. CHAPTER X.A third platform dug--Traces of former excavations by the Turks--Block of triglyphs, with bas-relief of Apollo--Fall of an earth-wall--Plan of a trench through the whole hill--A...
45. CHAPTER XXII.Interruptions through festivals--Opening of the tumulus of Batiea--Pottery like that of the Trojan stratum at Hissarlik, and nothing else--No trace of burial--Its age--Further d...
34. CHAPTER XI.Increase of men and machinery and cost on the works: but slow progress--Continued hurricane on “the windy Ilium” (Ἴλιος ἠνεμόεσσα)--The great platform proves too high--New cutti...
30. CHAPTER VII.Smoking at work forbidden, and a mutiny suppressed--Progress of the great platform--Traces of sacrifices--Colossal blocks of stone belonging to great buildings--Funereal and oth...
35. CHAPTER XII.Discovery of an ancient wall on the northern slope--Discovery of a Tower on the south side--Its position and construction--It is Homer’s _Great Tower of Ilium_--Manner of buildi...
40. CHAPTER XVII.Spring weather in the Plain of Troy--The Greek Temple of Athena--Numerous fragments of sculpture--Reservoir of the temple--Excavation of the Tower--Difficulties of the work--Fur...
32. CHAPTER IX.Superstition of the Greeks about saints’ days--Further engineering works--Narrow escape of six men--Ancient building on the western terrace--The ruins under this house--Old Troj...
44. CHAPTER XXI.Discovery of a street in the Pergamus--Three curious stone walls of different periods--Successive fortifications of the hill--Remains of ancient houses under the Temple of Athen...
39. CHAPTER XVI.Increased number of workmen--Further uncovering of the great buttress--Traces of a supposed small temple--Objects found on its site--Terra-cotta serpents’ heads: great importanc...
42. CHAPTER XIX.Splendid vases found on the Tower--Other articles--Human skull, bones, and ashes, found in an urn--New types of whorls--Greek votive discs of diorite--Moulds of mica-schist--The...
47. Chapter XVIII., No. 175. p. 261.[236] A handle such as this, or as that shown at p. 260 (No. 174), seems well suited for the long _leaning-staff_ (σκῆπτρον, from σκήπτομαι, “to lean upon”) which, in Homer, is...
25. CHAPTER II.Number of workmen--Discoveries at 2 to 4 meters deep--Greek coins--Remarkable terra-cottas with small stamps, probably _Ex votos_--These cease, and are succeeded by the whorls--...
38. CHAPTER XV.Return to Hissarlik in 1873--Interruptions by holydays and weather--Strong cold north winds--Importance of good overseers--An artist taken to draw the objects found--Want of wor...
31. CHAPTER VIII.Hindrances through Greek festivals--Thickness of the layers of _débris_ above the native rock--Date of the foundation of Troy--Impossibility of the _Bunarbashi_ theory--Homeric...
29. CHAPTER VI.New assistants for 1872--Cost of the excavations--Digging of the great platform on the North--Venomous snakes--A supporting buttress on the North side of the hill--Objects disco...
27. CHAPTER IV.Another passage from the Stone Age to copper implements mixed with stone--The signs of a higher civilization increase with the depth reached--All the implements are of better wo...
43. CHAPTER XX.Discovery of a large house upon the Tower--Marks of a great conflagration--Primitive Altar: its very remarkable position--Ruins of the Temple of Athena--A small cellar--Skeleton...
28. CHAPTER V.Interruptions from Rain--Last works of the season, 1871--The supposed ruins of Troy reached--Great blocks of stone--Engineering contrivances--Excavations at the “Village of the...
36. CHAPTER XIII.Intended cessation of the work--Further excavation of the Tower--Layers of red ashes and calcined stones--Objects found on the Tower--Weapons, implements, and ornaments of stone...
24. CHAPTER I.The site of ILIUM described--Excavations in 1870: the City Wall of Lysimachus--Purchase of the site and grant of a _firman_--Arrival of Dr. and Madame Schliemann in 1871, and be...
26. CHAPTER III.Puzzling transitions from the “Stone Age” to a higher civilization--The stone age reappears in force, mixed with pottery of fine workmanship, and the whorls in great number--Con...
41. CHAPTER XVIII.Weather and progress of the work--The lion-headed handle of a sceptre--Lions formerly in the Troad--Various objects found--Pottery--Implements of stone and copper--Whorls--Balls...
37. CHAPTER XIV.Return to Troy to take plans and photographs--Damage to retaining walls--The unfaithfulness of the watchman--Stones carried off for a neighbouring church and houses--Injury by r...
10. CHAPTER X.A third platform dug--Traces of former excavations by the Turks--Block of triglyphs, with bas-relief of Apollo--Fall of an earth-wall--Plan of a trench through the whole hill--A...
22. CHAPTER XXII.Interruptions through festivals--Opening of the tumulus of Batiea--Pottery like that of the Trojan stratum at Hissarlik, and nothing else--No trace of burial--Its age--Further d...
11. CHAPTER XI.Increase of men and machinery and cost on the works: but slow progress--Continued hurricane on “the windy Ilium” (Ἴλιος ἠνεμόεσσα)--The great platform proves too high--New cutti...
15. CHAPTER XV.Return to Hissarlik in 1873--Interruptions by holydays and weather--Strong cold north winds--Importance of good overseers--An artist taken to draw the objects found--Want of wor...
9. CHAPTER IX.Superstition of the Greeks about saints’ days--Further engineering works--Narrow escape of six men--Ancient building on the western terrace--The ruins under this house--Old Troj...
7. CHAPTER VII.Smoking at work forbidden, and a mutiny suppressed--Progress of the great platform--Traces of sacrifices--Colossal blocks of stone belonging to great buildings--Funereal and oth...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Spring weather in the Plain of Troy--The Greek temple of Athena--Numerous fragments of sculpture--Reservoir of the temple--Excavation of the Tower--Difficulties of the work--Fur...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Intended cessation of the work--Further excavation of the Tower--Layers of red ashes and calcined stones--Objects found on the Tower--Weapons, implements, and ornaments of stone...
12. CHAPTER XII.Discovery of an ancient wall on the northern slope--Discovery of a Tower on the south side--Its position and construction--It is Homer’s _Great Tower of Ilium_--Manner of buildi...
21. CHAPTER XXI.Discovery of a street in the Pergamus--Three curious stone walls of different periods--Successive fortifications of the hill--Remains of ancient houses under the temple of Athen...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Hindrances through Greek festivals--Thickness of the layers of _débris_ above the native rock--Date of the foundation of Troy--Impossibility of the _Bunarbashi_ theory--Homeric...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Return to Troy to take plans and photographs--Damage to retaining walls--The unfaithfulness of the watchman--Stones carried off for a neighbouring church and houses--Injury by r...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Increased number of workmen--Further uncovering of the great buttress--Traces of a supposed small temple--Objects found on its site--Terra-cotta serpents’ heads: great importanc...
3. CHAPTER III.Puzzling transitions from the “Stone Age” to a higher civilization--The stone age reappears in force, mixed with pottery of fine workmanship, and the whorls in great number--Con...
2. CHAPTER II.Number of workmen--Discoveries at 2 to 4 meters deep--Greek coins--Remarkable terra-cottas with small stamps, probably _Ex votos_--These cease, and are succeeded by the whorls--...
5. CHAPTER V.Interruptions from Rain--Last works of the season, 1871--The supposed ruins of Troy reached--Great blocks of stone--Engineering contrivances--Excavations at the “Village of the...
4. CHAPTER IV.Another passage from the Stone Age to copper implements mixed with stone--The signs of a higher civilization increase with the depth reached--All the implements are of better wo...
6. CHAPTER VI.New assistants for 1872--Cost of the excavations--Digging of the great platform on the North--Venomous snakes--A supporting buttress on the North side of the hill--Objects disco...
19. CHAPTER XIX.Splendid vases found on the Tower--Other articles--Human skull, bones, and ashes, found in an urn--New types of whorls--Greek votive discs of diorite--Moulds of mica-schist--The...
1. CHAPTER I.The site of ILIUM described--Excavations in 1870: the City Wall of Lysimachus--Purchase of the site and grant of a _firman_--Arrival of Dr. and Madame Schliemann in 1871, and be...
20. CHAPTER XX.Discovery of a large house upon the Tower--Marks of a great conflagration--Primitive Altar: its very remarkable position--Ruins of the temple of Athena--A small cellar--Skeleton...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Weather and progress of the work--The lion-headed handle of a sceptre--Lions formerly in the Troad--Various objects found--Pottery--Implements of stone and copper--Whorls--Balls...