In Schliemann's shadow: Frank Calvert, the unheralded discoverer of Troy

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Heinrich Schliemann, the German merchant, was not the first to recognize the mound of Hisarhk as ancient Troy. Seven years before Schliemann began his excavation on the mound, Frank Calvert, a British expatriate, had made attempts at locating the historic citadel. In 1859 he published a unique excavation report on Hanay Tepe, an ancient mound near Troy, that mirrored his belief in Homer. He sold many of the objects he had recovered from the sites to the Worcester Art Museum in 1905.

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Rethinking human evolution

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The growing number of fossils available for study has expanded potential directions of human evolution. Discoveries made from the 1970s on have greatly enlarged the anthropological record, indicating that early species of Homo sapiens are far more complex than scientists originally believed. Many different lineages are now possible from the amount of data obtained from the fossils.

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Rethinking Troy

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A section of stone wall has been discovered by remote sensing some 1,300 feet south of the Late Bronze Age citadel of Troy in northwestern Turkey. Excavations will be started in the summer of 1993 to determine the wall's date and extent. If the wall surrounds the entire plateau, the city's area would be five times greater than previously known.

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