New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
EICIT4TIOyS IN GREEcE.

Notes on The Recent Work Of the British SeAoa
From The London Times
II there have been no sensational discovr,is,
IKE those of Schliemann. at Mvcensp ana n
Exams. at knOssos. the work dome has resr -
great archaeological Importance Alreadv IN
their first season O906l the eyr.l,sters 5ai
learnt a great deal about the sixth century TEN
PIE OF ArtemiS OTthia. and had found belouv \.
eSh dIthdlc altar. and. in the deposits around a
number of small objects OF a Vrry- aarIy -
among them were fragments OF pottery Ieat
hSuTlneS. hbulse. and carved iyories The a.
representing all kinds of subjects from = No.
StaDolng a gorgOn 20 a ship in fun sail Not ~
ieaSt curious of the finds WAS that of nm.
pieces OF amber. which the Dorians nav 49,
brought with them from the north in their mo
WehtOuS migration. The work of tie rrao.,t
year was 70 make complete clearance of te
Slte ana the result has been to trace bark hi
history from the Roman theatre of the n'-i
century A d.. through the time of the HeIsu
lSuc temple. circa 17S b. G.. back to the sys
century temple. and again through this IN tbs
primitive altar and the little celia vvbieb al
joined II and which probably contained q roros
statue of the goddess. IL is made clear ,S,,
this altar. and those which We're blilt abovs n
on higher levels. preserved the cult of Artemis
on the same spot for at least l. 1No vears-fr0m
the ninth century Il. G. to the eVtinctan ~
P"sdnlSih. Another work. on which much prog.
resS mas been made during the year is the ex.
cavatiOn of the Menelaion or supposed sancnp
airy OF MenelauS and Helen on a hill two miles
10 the southeast of Sparta This monument
"4'iOiA was parity explored so long ago l<E
mas now yielded enough remains-sOne going
pack 10 the times now cOnventIOualIv called
Mycensean-to encourage the explorers TO prp
ceed Here il is at least u possibility that the
palace OF the son of Atreus may have been that
palace of which the young Telemachus admired
the gold, the electrOn. the silver the IVORY
and compared IL to the House of ZeuS
These excavations at Sparta are the most in
pOrtant of any that the British school at Atheas
has undertaken. and therefore they claim our
hrSt attention. But they are typical Of the
work that Tor many years past has been carried
on by scholars of many natiOnalities all over
the mainland and the islands of Greece as vel
as IN Crete, Rhodes and Asia Minor The
Greeks themselves are working hard and well
and whole phaianx OF native scholars is carry
ing on an arduOuS and successful campaign. Ths
AuStrians at EDhesus. the Germans at Mlets
and Perg anus. the Danes at I.indus the Amen
cans in various places and the French in the isl
and OF DelOs. have been achieving remarkabs
results during several past winters and springs
so have our own cOuntrymen IN B,eOtI1 an
Thessaly: and attention may be called. tiOug
the discovery is year or two Old. To the ts'
gings at Zereli1. where the English exCayatos
found "a rich neOlithiC deposit Six 20 siss
metres thick. with eight SuperpOSed settlements
that Is to say. evidence of eight tOwnS e's
built on the ruins OF the others. the sam
site. How far does that carry As backf