. Tribune popular science . even were bitten without any results,>cliliemann discovered that, they had preparedthemselves by drinking freely of a dec >ction of snake-root, which upon the plain. Hojudged it prudent to pivpa. e himself against da::t:Tby using the same antidote. Tho discoveries madeduring the first three weeks, when a depth of 48feet was reached without iindinir the boMoai of thoruins, were chieflv remarkable for th-iv indicationsof a much earlier civilixatioii than is ascribed MTroy. Tho figure of the owl-headed. Minerva, onvases and other ornaments, became so [i>
. Tribune popular science . even were bitten without any results,>cliliemann discovered that, they had preparedthemselves by drinking freely of a dec >ction of snake-root, which upon the plain. Hojudged it prudent to pivpa. e himself against da::t:Tby using the same antidote. Tho discoveries madeduring the first three weeks, when a depth of 48feet was reached without iindinir the boMoai of thoruins, were chieflv remarkable for th-iv indicationsof a much earlier civilixatioii than is ascribed MTroy. Tho figure of the owl-headed. Minerva, onvases and other ornaments, became so [i>qnent thatSchliemann saw therein a certain ;ol of thoTrojan goddess. He insist •(! that the tltfO- (ilaii1:isAticiic of Homer means, correctly th)goddess Athene with tho owls drew auewfaithin his theory from tins inter,UVM: regard to the jidmitive symbols ol tlie orig-inal Aryan race which he discovered, I will luertionthem after iiuishiiu the history of tha v.\si: WITH TTIR ov,*!;rn MIXI ::VA or- owl-face on this vase is not to be mistaken. The circles below represent, the , ruddy hint-ing at Imi h bird and goddess, u ouo. This emblemis repeated, not onlv on pol tery, but on the pendant*of the golden ear-drops and diadems whict) wereafterward found ill the so-called House rf iriam. Ancient Troy—Bayard Taylor. By May. Scblicmann had 130 laborers employed,and divided the force, placing a part of the menUnder the charge of a 1arian Greek, named Photidas,who had worked seven years in tho gold mines ofAustralia, and understood tunneling. The great cutthrough the plateau was now driven from both ends,but the difficulty and danger arising from the massesof crumbling earth on either side greatly delayedthe undertaking. Piiotidas and one of the menwere buiied by the slide of a huge mass, but worefortunately saved by some wooden props and dug outbefore they were suffocated. The eastern purr, ofthe pla
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