[AnAmericanMother]

LOL! My dad sat on it too!

(It's o.k., I don't think it's original, I think it was cast in con"crete" by Sir Arthur Evans.)

My Archaeology prof had a bunch of cool slides too. He was head of the American School in Athens while they were excavating the Agora. Really neat stuff!

[yarddog]

You probably already know that Schliemann had negotiated to buy the site of Knossos but the deal fell through when he discovered the seller was lying about how many olive trees were on the land.

The man was either incredibly lucky or perhaps a much better archeologist than most of the professionals give him credit for.