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 (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 417
the tenth year that Troy yielded to theinevitable fate. It was delivered over to the sword and its glorysank in ashes. 396 TROY. The houses of Troy were all very high, and had severalstories, as is obvious from the thickness, of the walls, the con-struction and colossal heaps of debris. The city… … GOLDKN CUPS OP PRIAM. were largely built with stone from the ruins of Troy; Archseanaxis said to have built a long wall around Sigeum with its stones. A portion of a large building was laid bare, the walls ofwhich are 6y^ feet thick, and consist for the most part of hewnblocks of limestone joined…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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