In 1869, this man crossed the Atlantic from Europe to Indianapolis for the sole purpose of getting a divorce from his first wife, which was mocked as "a copper-bottom divorce" by the Terre Haute Weekly Gazette.
In 1869, this man crossed the Atlantic from Europe to Indianapolis for the sole purpose of getting a divorce from his first wife, which was mocked as "a copper-bottom divorce" by the Terre Haute Weekly Gazette. This man only allowed his younger son to be baptized if it was by his own hand, which he did while holding a copy of the Iliad above his son's head and reciting a hundred lines from it. This man's excavations of a (*) tholoi, or beehive tomb, at Orchomenus yielded a massive lintel made of several tons of granite. One of this man's most famous discoveries was a golden burial mask belonging to a Mycenaean king, which this archaeologist presumed was Agamemnon. At the Anatolian site of Hisarlik, this man uncovered an abundance of ancient artifacts known today as Priam's Treasure. For 10 points, name this archaeologist who uncovered the remains what he was presumed to be the site of ancient Troy.
In 1869, this man crossed the Atlantic from Europe to Indianapolis for the sole purpose of getting a divorce from his first wife, which was mocked as "a copper-bottom divorce" by the Terre Haute Weekly Gazette.
Heinrich Schliemann