Heinrich Schliemann
Kefalonia: Is it really Odysseus’ Ithaca? – New documentary on homer’s mythical king
The American newspaper Wall Street Journal addresses this controversy in an article discussing the documentary “Odysseus Returns”.
It focuses on Makis Metaxas’ quest to prove that Odysseus was a real person who was buried on Kefalonia, possibly the Ithaca described by Homer.
German Archaeological Institute celebrates 150 years in Athens
idiou is a tiny street running off Academias in downtown Athens and for most it is associated with the city center's entertainment scene, as a popular meze restaurant there tends to draw a fun crowd in the evenings.
Exhibition featuring 150th anniversary of Troy Excavations opens to visitors
An exhibition titled "Troy Excavations in the light of Ottoman Documents in the 150th Year" has been opened at the Troy Museum, where artifacts unearthed from the 5,600-year-old Troy Ruins in the northwestern province of Çanakkale are exhibited.
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Schliemann’s destruction still in Troy after 150 years
The destruction caused by Heinrich Schliemann, who made excavations 150 years ago in the ancient city of Troy, which is located within the borders of the Tevfikiye village of the northwestern province of Çanakkale and has a history of 5,500 years, is still trying to be eradicated.
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Mapping Athens's First Cemetery
Located behind the Panathenaic Stadium, Athens's First Cemetery is famed for its remarkable funerary sculptures and monuments, many signed by eminent artists and architects.
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Mapping Athens's First Cemetery - SUNDAY
Located behind the Panathenaic Stadium, Athens's First Cemetery is famed for its remarkable funerary sculptures and monuments, many signed by eminent artists and architects.
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Jurij Subic Tribute | Athens | To January 14
The Numismatic Museum pays tribute to Jurij Subic, the Slovenian painter invited to do the murals and ceiling paintings of the Ilion Melathron by Ernst Ziller, who had designed the mansion, and German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who was to live there, in December 1879.
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Unseen Treasures | Athens | To July 30
The late archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann would recount how his wife, Sophia Engastromenou-Schliemann, an avid fan of Homer, would sit by an watch him at work from morning to night at some excavation site or another.
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