The Turk and his lost provinces - Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia (1903) (14593220188)

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Title: The Turk and his lost provinces : Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia

Year: 1903 (1900s)

Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911

Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan) Greece -- Description and travel Bulgaria -- Description and travel Serbia -- Description and travel Bosnia and Hercegovina -- Description and travel

Publisher: Chicago London : F.H. Revell Company

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sedby the American Archeological Institute. Its repre-sentatives from the American School of ClassicalStudies at Athens have been engaged for several yearsin making excavations, and have laid bare a consider-able portion of old Corinth, including the forum, themarket-place, the temple of justice, three fountains,baths hewn in the solid rock, and several dwellingsand buildings that were occupied for businesspurposes. The work is being extended gradually asfast as the limited funds of the society will allow, andthe disclosures are of great classical interest andimportance to historians and students. It will be con-tinued until all the important ruins are disclosed.Near by, upon a convenient roadway, a warehouse hasbeen erected to preserve the statues, the inscriptionsand other small articles of interest that are found inthe excavations. Unfortunately for us, the laws of Greece prohibit theexportation of these relics. The government is verystrict about such matters. No excavations can be

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S 2 z ;: FROM CORFU TO CORINTH 329 made without a permit from the authorities, whodesignate an inspector to supervise them, and hekeeps a careful watch upon all that is done. Every-thing must go to the museum at Athens unless theowner of the property is willing to erect a building forthe public exhibition of whatever he may find. In thisway some of the old cities and the little towns ofGreece have secured local museums which possess acertain advantage in enabling students to study arche-ology upon the ground, but this scarcely offsetsmany disadvantages, for most of them are difficult ofaccess. The most important articles discovered atCorinth have been sent by the American school to theNational Museum at Athens. At a shop in the village a few fragments of indiffer-ent value from the excavations are for sale, and theyare no doubt genuine. Bogus antiquities are manu-factured in large quantities, but most of them are moreexpensive than the genuine. Although the Romanscarried away from Gre

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