In 1890, Heinrich Schliemann, the German archaeologist and excavator of Troy, died.

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Further digging at Mycenae in the 1880s and 1890s by Christos Tsountas, a competent Greek archaeologist, revealed that, just as he had at Troy, Schliemann mis-dated his discovery.

ECONOMIST: Ancient Greece

Evans's shrewdness and determination, along with his willingness to spend freely, secured him the site against competition from French, Italian and American archaeologists, in a scramble among the Great Powers for a treasure trove to rival Heinrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy and Mycenae on the mainland.

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Although archaeoseismology (the study of ancient earthquakes through indicators left in the archaeological record) has a lineage that extends back to the pioneering excavations of Schliemann at Troy, Evans at Knossos and Schaeffer at Ugarit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it is essentially a young and burgeoning discipline that has met with much reservation from some earthquake scientists.

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