Greek politicians and archaeologists expressed outrage over the collapse of a section of the 'Dolphin Fresco' at the Palace of Knossos in Crete. The incident occurred on Friday when a replica of ...

In an article for the 24 September 1924 issue of the Illustrated London News, Marshall wrote: Not often has it been given to archaeologists, as it was given to Schliemann at Tiryns and Mycenæ ...

Evans, a museum director from Oxford and an admirer of Schliemann, believed in the excavations of Knossos, as well as in the limited findings that had emerged from Kalokairinos’ work up to that ...

Schliemann, der Kaufmann ... Nach wenigen Wochen in Knossos änderte er seine Meinung. Zuerst tauchten bei der Grabung Schrifttäfelchen aus Ton auf mit in geraden Reihen geschriebenen Zeichen ...

Evans (1851-1941), Museumsdirektor aus Oxford und glühender Verehrer von Schliemanns Troja-Entdeckungen, glaubt an den Grabungsort Knossos und die bis dato noch sehr vereinzelten archäologischen ...

In 2024, the Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete witnessed a surge in tourism, with the number of visitors exceeding one million and surpassing the previous record set in 2019, according to SKAI.

Before that time, Knossos had only served as a place mentioned in Greek mythology. The first modern scholar to take a serious interest in the area was the German Heinrich Schliemann, who, in 1870, had ...

The two men knew of each other, Evans having visited Schliemann’s sites. Schliemann had also planned to excavate at Knossos on Crete but died before fulfilling that dream. Evans actually bought the ...

Das hat ihnen gerade noch gefehlt: Im Schliemann-Museum in Ankersagen dreht sich bekanntermaßen (fast) alles um den Archäologen und Pionier der Feldarchäologie, Heinrich Schliemann. Dass seine ...

[2] Heinrich Schliemann, in the late nineteenth century ... but other sites such as Pylos, Thebes and Knossos could equally be called ‘proud and wealthy towns’; but how can we avoid a subjective ...

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