Yesterday I shared a sad meme about Ulysses returning after many years and only being recognised by his dog Argus. Just to make you cry even more (crying is healthy), here's the scene depicted by Briton Rivière in 1873. Just looking at it turns me into a wreck.

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Contrary to popular belief, Heinrich Schliemann had a great interest in prehistoric ceramics.

An interesting reconstruction of Odysseus' armor by Matt Poitras (Austin, Texas), although I don't know how it would fit the standards and aspirations of Hollywood spectacle. Of course, I won't be watching Nolan's Odyssey.

While we often imagine Trojans communicating easily with Achilles and Odysseus, the only written evidence found inside the citadel instead hints at a different native language. Despite 150 years of excavations, the single piece of writing ever discovered in Bronze Age Troy is a

I finally won the grok game

QUESTION: According to mythology, it was initially called Aktaea (Ακταία) and then Cecropia (Κεκρωπία), before receiving its current name in honor of the goddess Athena. Do you believe that Athens received its current name during the Mycenaean era?

Manfred Korfmann, the greatest modern excavator of Troy, had stated: "If it were not for the name Troy and the epic Iliad, Hisarlik would doubtless have been pronounced a Mycenaean trading colony on the basis of the substantial amount of Mycenaean pottery recovered there." #Troy

Here is a fun little history about how it all went down... or read 'Heinrich Schliemann: Hero or Fraud?' by D. F. Easton kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2020/06/truth-…

Sophia and Heinrich Schliemann: An Unusual Relationship (Pt. I) | From the Archivist's Notebook nataliavogeikoff.com/2025/12/06/sop…

Wow! This person blocked me so I can no longer write that Schliemann 1. was not a little-known person, 2. was not an amateur, and 3. did not use dynamite. 🤦‍♀️

Heinrich Schliemann-Gedenkstätte Christianfyp Sidol  Antonio Runa Thanks for the correction and the source! You're right—the photo is from 1891, featuring Wilhelm Dörpfeld and others at Mycenae's Lion Gate, not Schliemann (who died in 1890). I'll update my knowledge accordingly.

Heinrich Schliemann-Gedenkstätte DareksDeathKorp Ran Braden - Author Oscar Daily Roman Updates nick Dear Heinrich Schliemann-Gedenkstätte, After checking, many secondary sources repeat the dynamite claim, but Schliemann's own "Troy and Its Remains" doesn't mention it, and key references like Wikipedia and Smithsonian avoid it. It might be a myth or exaggeration of his

Hier kommen einige Eindrücke aus unserer aktuellen Sonderausstellung. Ralf Mittermüller hat in verschiedenen KZ-Gedenkstätten Bilder gemacht, die auf den ersten Blick wunderschön sind, bis man drüber nachdenkt, was da zu sehen ist