The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-18
sCHLiEMANN's LATEST FINDS.


lila Excavations on the Spot Whore Hum
stood for n Thousand Years,
ATuENs, Jan. %. In aletter headed "'fhe
Archaeological Discoveries in the Leyant,"
dated Athens, 18th ult, aud published In
the Times OF the 10th inst, IL Ia stated that
"thc resumption OF my excavations at
IIssar)ik has failed to develop anything
coniirmaiory of my Ilian hypothesis, and
that the famous stratilloatlon OF civilza-
ton which was supposed to testify to the
extreme antiquity OF the city Is shown TO
be untenable," Tho anonymous writer "
evidently no nrchNologist. Moreover. no
does not speak of my excavations from O.
sonal inspection, nor does he seem TO have
the slightest knowledge of what he's been
written OF the subject since August last.
cxcavalcd in 1852 Cor hve months
namely, from March lat I'LL August LIST, EN-
ploying all tho time 100 laborers, and nided
by two of the most eminent architects Of
| Europe. Mr.. J Hotter of Vienna, aud DIR
| William DOrpfed OF Berlin, the latter OF
whom supcrintendcd for four years tho
technical part OF tho excavations of tho
German empire At Olympia, Not only
have these excavations been no failure, hut.
on the contrary, they have yielded fur more
important results than all my previous OK.
CayRtions at liissarlik since 1870. The gl,c.
cession of five prehistoric and two later set
Elements, ms given by me In "llios," ia con.
tirmed by my architects (sce DE-. Dlrpied' a
letter IN the Anesbrrger Allsemeine Zei
tung of September -. 1882, and an extrnc,
OF IL IN tho Academy of October ~ who
have, however, proved to mo that tho enor
nous masses Of cacned debris, which I
had attributed to the third city, really be.
long to the second city, which persisted in
on the hill Of llissarlik only its Perramus
with five or six edilices of very large dimen.
s,ons, while its lower city extended cas-,
south, and west on the plateau.
We have eNcavated most carefully all the
buildings OF the ACropolis, among which
two, OF very large proportions and with
walls respectively | metre 10 and metre
20 thick, seem 10 us, for many reasons. To
be temples Nothing could bottcr prove
the great antiquity OF the buildings than
the tact that they were built of inbaked
bricks, and that the walls had been baked
Ia stu by huge masses OF wood piled up on
both sides of each wall aud kinded stimuli
taneously; each of these buildings has a
Nh'' NNoNibhiNihi tNtn VI lUt 'front.' IlNNA
OF the lateral walls is provided with six yer.
tical quadrangular beams which stood on
weli.polished bases, the lower part OF which
was preserved, though, OF course, in a cal
cined state. We, therefore, see that in
these ancient Trojan temples the anton OF
parastados, which IN latter Hellenic temple.
fulfilled only technical purpose, served
here ~ AN important element of consttuo
ton, for they We're intended to protect
the wall ends aud to render them incapabl,
OF supporting the pondcrous weight OF The
super incumbent cross beams Of the terrace
We found similar primitive antm In tw,
other edilioes. ANA that the lateral walls o
tho northwestern gate.
We also fund that the great wall of IA,
ancient Acropols had been built ofunbake,
bricks, and had been baked like the templ,
walls ~ stu, lay stress on the fact that !
! eimilar process of baking entire walls In,
never Yet been discovered, and that tn,
, antW in the Hellenic temples are uothin,
+ else Than "reminiscences OF the wooden ante
. OF old which were of important coustruo
Q tive use. We discovered In the Aoropoli
4 of the second city three large oates, all q
\ which led down to tho lower city. Home
T knew OF only one gate al Troy (lhe Scman
sometimes also called the Dardanmn GAZE.
, but this gate was on the west side of Tia,
lower city; the gates Of tho Pergamus ar
, never mentioned in the poems. The tire
, prehistoric settlements which succeede,
, each other In tho calciucd ruins of IA,
! Acropolis were poor and insignificant, an,
b none of them extended beyond the hill o
e Hissarllk. The ruins OF the lower city
thercio.e. remained deserted for ages IA,
. bricks erumbled away, aud the stones o
tue walls served the now settlers on lllssar
iik for building their houses. or, as tho 10
gcnd ran, (seo Suabo, XIII, 69oO tho,
! were used for building the wallis otSiecum
The site was in later times occupied b,
the Eolic llium, which stood for more thai
, 200 years, but, nevertheless, tho traces o
the ancient burnt city have not been obltt
Grated the huge masses Of prehistoric pot
terry, perfectly identical with that of IN,
| second city on tho Pcrgamus, which wer,
iound IN the extensive excavations made b,
mo ON the lower plateau, testify to Its OK
istencc ON tho spot. Its existence scem
further to DO proved by tho vertical wal
represented IN "llios. y. a, N. Pr, as wei
: sby the three gates, and, above all, by m,
ground plan and the number Of loose edi
ices in the Pergamus. | have now exca
/, waited tho latter entirely, and for this reason
slonc tho excavations 1t Troy must DO con
siucred as terminated forever. have ais,
excavated tombs, aud have thoroughly OK
plorvd tho ancient city on the heights OF
Bunsrbashi, rs well as the sites OF four 9th
! or ancient towns.
A null account Of this. my last Trojan
campaign, with excellent plans and about
YNV engravings Of the most curious finds
. Will DO published by Mr.. John Murray.
, HkSay SonLisMANS.
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