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Heinrich Schliemann lecturing in London, 1877. German archaeologist Schliemann (1822-1890), lecturing on his excavations at Mycenae in Greece during 1876 to the Society of Antiquaries in their rooms at Burlington House, London. Schliemann pioneered Greek prehistoric archaeology and, in addition to his excavatiaons at Mycenae and a number of other sites, he excavated the traditional site of Troy four times between 1871 and 1890. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 31 March 1877).