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THE excavations made during the last two years at Tiryns, by Dr. Schliemann and Dr. Döorpfeld, have hrown new light on what has been hitherto an almost unknown period of Greek history—that far-off time, more remote even than the age of the Homeric poems, when Hellenic civilisation had not yet emerged from its Orien-:al cradle, nor developed its highly cultured systems of social and political government out of the splendid but semi-barbarous tyrannies of Western Asia Minor.
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M., J. The Recent Discoveries at Tiryns 1 . Nature 34, 218–220 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034218c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/034218c0