So for the new pic you posted. USA?
I'm sorry, C.I. and Ellinas. I don't know the fine details. All I really want is the country and the discovery. Turkey is correct, and the discovery is?
This was at Ephessos, he was more spesific.
So ciceron, Australia?
Hold on a second. Letty was trying to say the discovery of Troy in Turkey, and simply that. Sorry if I mislead everyone.
Troy was discovered by a German, Schlieman, I believe.
Exactly, C.I. but is that picture not of Troy?
According to legend, the finder of the true site of Troy was Heinrich Schliemann, adventurer, speaker of 15 languages, world traveller, and gifted amateur archaeologist. In his memoirs and books, Schliemann claimed that when he was eight, his father took him on his knee and told him the story of the Iliad, the forbidden love between Helen, wife of the King of Sparta, and Paris, son of Priam of Troy, and how their elopement resulted in a war that destroyed a civilization. That story, said Schliemann, awoke in him a hunger to search for the archaeological proof of the existence of Troy and Tiryns and Mycenae. In fact, he was so hungry that he went into business to make his fortune so he could afford the search. And after much consideration and study and investigation, on his own he found the original site of Troy, at Hisarlik in Turkey.
Yes, it's in Canada, but where?
Letty, The picture you posted is of the library in Ephesus. Troy doesn't have much in the way to standing structures that survived. I know about Schleimann, because he was instrumental in the discovery of some important archaeological finds in the middle east, and he once lived in Sacramento, California, the place of my birth. He supposedly got his money from his brother's gold business.
Thank you, C.I. Once again, I goofed. There was another picture, but I couldn't access it.
From my photo album on Troy.
The excavations at Troy shows, if I remember correctly, seven levels of the city; one built on top of the other that shows different geological time periods.
Yes, Schliemann discovered cities far older than Troy, and as I recall, he took the treasures that he found, much to the dismay of the Turkish government and the antiquities department. He even married someone named Helen. All that from the memories of an eleven year old girl whose books were her only companions. <smile>
I cannot see a picture of what you are asking about, C.I.
It's true that Schliemann took antiquities from the sites he founded, but so did the English from around the world. The British Museum is the home to many treasures from around the world; one of my favorite museums.
