Troja: Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer's Troy and in the Heroic Tumuli and Other Sites, Made in the Year 1882. And a Narrative of a Journey in the Troad in 1881 |
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| Title | Troja: Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer's Troy and in the Heroic Tumuli and Other Sites, Made in the Year 1882. And a Narrative of a Journey in the Troad in 1881 Part 4 of Troja: Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer's Troy and in the Heroic Tumuli and Other Sites, Made in the Year 1882 ; and a Narrative of a Journey in the Troad in 1881, Archibald Henry Sayce |
| Author | Heinrich Schliemann |
| Contributor | Archibald Henry Sayce |
| Publisher | Murray, 1884 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jan 17, 2007 |
| Length | 434 pages |
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