Heinrich Schliemann:
Heinrich Schliemann was born in Neubukow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin on January, 6, 1822. He was a German pioneer of field archaeology. At the age of 14 he was forced to leave the country for ill health reasons, so he became a captain boy on a ship heading from Hamburg to Venezuela. The vessel was wrecked off the Dutch coast; he became an office boy and then a bookkeeper for a trading firm in Amsterdam. In 1846 the firm sent him to St. Petersburg as an agent. There he founded a business on his own and embarked, among other things, on the indigo trade. In 1852 he married Ekaterina Lyschin. In the 1850s he was in the United States and became a U.S. citizen. He then Returned to Russia from business at the age of 36 and began to …show more content…
Along with Heinrich Schliemann, Evans was a pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age. The two men knew of each other. He continued Schliemann's concept of Mycenaean civilization but soon found that he needed to distinguish another civilization, the Minoan. He was most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artefacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Arthur matriculated on June, 9 1870 and attended Brasenose College, Oxford. He became an extraordinary professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909. During an address in 1896 he suggested that the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek mainland had its origins in Crete. Three years later he purchased a tract of land that included the site of Knossos, and after a year’s digging he had unearthed palace ruins covering 5.5 acres (2.2 hectares). The size and splendour of the findings indicated that Knossos had been an ancient cultural capital. The complex ground plan of the palace suggested the labyrinth associated with the legendary King Minos, prompting Evans to name the civilization Minoan. Over the period of the next 25 years Evans pursued his investigations. Digging below the Bronze Age ruins, he came upon remains of a Neolithic civilization, thus helping to place Mycenae in historical
Heinrich Schliemann was born in Neubukow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin on January, 6, 1822. He was a German pioneer of field archaeology. At the age of 14 he was forced to leave the country for ill health reasons, so he became a captain boy on a ship heading from Hamburg to Venezuela. The vessel was wrecked off the Dutch coast; he became an office boy and then a bookkeeper for a trading firm in Amsterdam. In 1846 the firm sent him to St. Petersburg as an agent. There he founded a business on his own and embarked, among other things, on the indigo trade. In 1852 he married Ekaterina Lyschin. In the 1850s he was in the United States and became a U.S. citizen. He then Returned to Russia from business at the age of 36 and began to …show more content…
Along with Heinrich Schliemann, Evans was a pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age. The two men knew of each other. He continued Schliemann's concept of Mycenaean civilization but soon found that he needed to distinguish another civilization, the Minoan. He was most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artefacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Arthur matriculated on June, 9 1870 and attended Brasenose College, Oxford. He became an extraordinary professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909. During an address in 1896 he suggested that the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek mainland had its origins in Crete. Three years later he purchased a tract of land that included the site of Knossos, and after a year’s digging he had unearthed palace ruins covering 5.5 acres (2.2 hectares). The size and splendour of the findings indicated that Knossos had been an ancient cultural capital. The complex ground plan of the palace suggested the labyrinth associated with the legendary King Minos, prompting Evans to name the civilization Minoan. Over the period of the next 25 years Evans pursued his investigations. Digging below the Bronze Age ruins, he came upon remains of a Neolithic civilization, thus helping to place Mycenae in historical