Un livre, une découverte. La lecture, la liberté.
Le bookcrossing vous fera (re)découvrir le monde…

J'aurais dû indiquer où je l'ai trouvé. Armoire à livres ? Sans doute. A 2nd-hand book picked up in a free book box.

Sophia Schliemann arborant les bijoux du trésor de Priam (voir comm. 3). Sophia Schliemann with some jewels from the "King Priam's treasury". (See my 3rd comment)

P. 120:
The materials are all here, and it is up to us to uncover them.
(That's about Troy)


The book itself has something to do with archaeology, as it is slightly damaged. That's not a new one.

Troy (French) archaeological site.

Hisarlik, Canakkale (English)

Henry (né Heinrich) Schliemann est dépeint comme lecteur enthousiaste d'Homère. Henry Sch. went to the excavated areas in Hisarlik with a copy of Homer's Iliad. Hisarlik, in Turkish: a place for a fortress.

Page 267 :
What they saw tumble out paralyzed them of speech or movement… A gold fillet to hold back a woman’s hair. Two large gold diadems… Each of the chains had eleven square leaves of gold…
Henry picked up the first diadem and placed it lovingly on Sophia’s head. It fit perfectly.
- Vassilissa Schliemann. Queen Sophia. You are Helen of Troy ! he exclaimed rapturously.

Henry and Sophia Schliemann excavated Troy (Hisarlik) and Mycenae. Mycenae is world famous for its Lion Gate, in Greek Πύλη των Λεόντων. Two lions or two lionesses ornate the upper part of the gate. During the excavations, it is easy to understand why the Schliemanns live in Χαρβάτι, "Charvati", as this village is very close to the ruins. The name of the place is now Mykines, Μυκήνες.

Here, some informations about the Atreid dynasty:
Atreus

En fr. voir sous Atrée et ensuite sous Egisthe où on comprend pourquoi Egisthe porte ce nom.

Kyriakos Pittakis carried out the first excavations at Mycenae in 1841.

Pp. 374-375:
Slowly, gently, they brushed aside the layer of ash… Still brushing ash with their fingertips, they uncovered a mass of gold leaves. Removing them one by one, they saw that they had been used to cover the rib cage of a corpse. Breathing hard but saying no word, they removed the gold leaf and found the remains of a skull… The body was lying with his head to the east…
In voice so hoarse that she could hardly recognize it, Sophia heard Henry say:
- We have found our first royal tomb ! Our first royal corpse !

Henry Schliemann is peeking through a hole in the wall (1885) at Lions Gate…

Mycenae ou YouTube.

Mycenae gold artifacts on YouTube.

Page 464, Henry Schliemann and Wilhelm Dörpfeld. Dörpfeld developed the stratigraphic method in archaeology. He was born in 1854 and he died in Greece in 1940 aged 86. He had a house on the island Lefkada. Dörpfeld believed that Ulysses' Ithaca island was Lefkada and not the present-day Ithaca.

Page 490: About the "mystery" of Priam's Treasure… Its fate is no longer a mystery. The treasure is in Moscow, it was seized by Red Army in May 1945 at the end of WWII in Europe.

Il ne t'est jamais donné de rêve sans le pouvoir de le réaliser. (Richard Bach)

Eh bien, vous avez découvert quelque chose...
Un livre abandonné exprès !
N'ayez pas d'hésitation: donnez votre avis, ou racontez votre découverte, cela nous plaît de savoir ce que deviennent les livres "libérés" ainsi.


There were several people in the Parc Gourgas. So try to avoid being too close to them. This fine & sunny weather put the public at risk as they are more likely to walk outside.

As a game (otherwise it's too sad) imagine a "next" Schliemann, the one who is busy to dig among our remains of some city. - Our Schliemann-to-be would find plastic artifacts everywhere.
Our archaeological remains already "exist" in inter-Korean DMZ, at Varosha beach in Cyprus as this seashore place lies very close to the Attila Ceasefire Line, and in Pripyat, a town in Ukraine which was evacuated in 1986 after a nuclear accident in Chernobyl.