Lost and found : the 9,000 treasures of Troy : Heinrich Schliemann and the gold that got away / Caroline Moorehead
- Bib ID:
- 1419758
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Moorehead, Caroline
- Uniform Title:
- Lost treasures of Troy
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Viking, 1996
- xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0670856797 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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One of the enduring stories of the last century is the astounding 1873 discovery by the first modern archaeologist, Heinrich Schliemann, of the lost gold of Priam, king of ancient Troy. With the biographical skill that drew such praise for her book Bertrand Russell, Caroline Moorehead explores Schliemann's extraordinary life and how he contrived to smuggle the nine thousand gold chains, elaborate silver pictures, gold coins, and other amazing artifacts from his dig in Asia Minor to his government in Berlin. Schliemann's treasures of Troy, lost when pillaged by the Nazis during World War II, received front-page coverage in 1993 when they were revealed to be residing in Moscow, having been looted in 1945 by the Russians. Here is the account, thrilling to historians, Russia-watchers, and anyone intrigued by an investigation, of how Moorehead found her way past bureaucratic defenses to learn the whereabouts of and the truth about this legendary collection.
- Notes:
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- Originally published: The lost treasures of Troy. London : Weidenfeld & Nicholoson, 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-298) and index.
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