Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 421
gs, which wereagain erected up-on these calcinedheaps of ruins,that neither the palace of the owner of the Treasure, nor theScaean Gate, nor the great surrounding Wall, nor Iliums GreatTower, were ever again brought to light. A city, whose kingpossessed such a Treasure, was immensely wealthy,… … CALL OF MENELAUS. 595 mythical heroic age, is, at all events, a discovery which standsalone in archaeology, revealing great wealth, great civilizationand great taste for art, in an age preceding the discovery ofbronze, when weapons and implements of pure copper wereemployed contemporaneously with…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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