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OUR age is eminently an age of investigation, and, more than any previous one, is drawn towards archæological studies by a restless and feverish ardour. Dissatisfied with the present, it rushes back into the past, to seek for traces of the most ancient origins of man and of his races, the primitive sketches due to his artistic and industrial genius, the beginnings, still so obscure, of his history, and even of prehistoric times. The learned works of Mr. Layard on Nineveh and Khorsabad, the fruitful excavations of M. Mariette in Egypt, those of the Americans in the mounds and tumuli of the Ohio and Mississippi, the discoveries, so valuable for human palæontology, due to the courageous perseverance of Boucher de Perthes and to the ingenious sagacity of M. Lartet, of Sir Charles Lyell, of Sir John Lubbock, Prof. Wilson, Mr. E. B. Tylor, and others,—does not all this indicate a very distinct movement towards researches which have for their object the vestiges which man has left on the earth or in its depths from the most remote periods?
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The Ruins of Troy: Recent Discoveries of Dr. Schliemann * . Nature 10, 384–385 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010384a0
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