Book · 2011 · Juvenile Nonfiction
Digging for Troy
From Homer to Hisarlik
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Some passages from Digging for Troy are heartbreaking if you are any kind of antiquities nerd or just someone who values an improved understanding of our shared human cultural heritage.
What they say about it
- Excavation and methods described“methods were savage and brutal”4
The best things said about it
He wrote to a friend asking for help with the search.
Once companionship was taken care of, Heinrich pivots to his much larger plan, which is making himself immortal through fame.
From the book, Digging for Troy, quote, convinced that Troy was at the very bottom of the mound at his sarlacc, he armed his workmen with pickaxes and ordered a huge trench dug into the center of the mound.
Schliemann's methods were savage and brutal. He plowed through layers of soil and everything in them without proper record keeping.
Schliemann claimed to have unearthed parts of a soldier's helmet, which turned out to be the pieces of a smashed bronze vase.
He's resigned to the fact that I have to let an actual archaeologist do actual archaeology here.
Why people recommend it
Every mention
Robert Evans From the book Digging for Troy, quote, He wrote to a friend asking for help with the search. 7
Discussed
“From the book Digging for Troy, quote, He wrote to a friend asking for help with the search.”
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“As Rubel, Kama, and Klein describe it, once companionship was taken care of, Heinrich pivots to his much larger plan, which is making himself immortal through fame.”
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“From the book, Digging for Troy, quote, convinced that Troy was at the very bottom of the mound at his sarlacc, he armed his workmen with pickaxes and ordered a huge trench dug into the center of the mound.”
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“Quote, from Digging for Troy, Schliemann's methods were savage and brutal. He plowed through layers of soil and everything in them without proper record keeping.”
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“And some passages from digging for Troy are heartbreaking if you are any kind of antiquities nerd or just someone who values an improved understanding of our shared human cultural heritage. Quote, their pickaxes and shovels obliterated history.”
Discussed
“Further discoveries followed as Rubelkaba and Klein write, quote, Schliemann claimed to have unearthed parts of a soldier's helmet, which turned out to be the pieces of a smashed bronze vase.”
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“Per the book Digging for Troy, quote, He's resigned to the fact that I have to let an actual archaeologist do actual archaeology here, and it will surely prove that I've been right all along.”
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“In Digging for Troy, the authors write, Schliemann was sure the site would have been unworkable if the storks hadn't eaten most of the snakes.”