ARH 252 Lecture : ARH252 NOTES.docx
27 Apr 2014
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Greece in the age of heroes 18th century bce. Heinrich schliemann a wealthy german businessman who made himself an archeologist, discovered troy and several other fortified cities built on top of each other. Schliemann found massive fortress palaces with gold, jewelry and several other signs of great wealth. Mycenae wasn"t the only center of this civilization; another was minoan crete and was ruled by. In a legendary myth he built a labyrinth (a maze) to catch a minotaur (bull-headed man). Ming minos also ruled knossos; heinrich discovered a palace on an aegean sea island that resembled a maze and the people who he found living there he named minoans. Archeologists found scripts that they have yet to decipher that are written in a form of ancient. They are called linear a and linear b. Naxos was an aegean island where marble was found in abundance. Figurine of a woman, from syros (cyclades), greece, ca.
