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Archaeology magazine has run a series of articles presenting both sides of the debate. In the latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the authenticity of the mask has been formally questioned, primarily by William Calder III and David Traill. these are not his ornaments? All right, let's call him Schulze.' Authenticity The mask in the museum Close to the end of his life, the archaeologist accepted doubts as to the mask's true owner and is quoted as saying, 'So this is not Agamemnon. Schliemann later named his son after the legendary king. He is supposed to have told the king in a telegraph, 'I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon'. Following his discoveries at the site, Schliemann notified King George of Greece. The Mask of Agamemnon was created from a single thick gold sheet, heated and hammered against a wooden background with the details chased on later with a sharp tool. Schliemann took this as evidence the Trojan War was a real historical event. The Mask of Agamemnon was named by Schliemann after the legendary Greek king Agamemnon of Homer's Iliad. The quantities of gold and carefully worked artifacts indicate honor, wealth and status. A total of eight men were discovered in Grave Circle A, all of whom had weapons in their graves, but only five had masks those were in Grave IV and Grave V. Schliemann found the gold funeral mask in 1876, in a shaft tomb designated Grave V, at the site Grave Circle A, Mycenae. Modern archaeological research suggests that the mask dates to about the 16th century BC, pre-dating the period of the mythical Trojan War by 300–400 years. German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the artifact in 1876, believed that he had found the body of the Mycenaean king Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans in the ancient Greek epic of the Trojan War, the Iliad. The mask, displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, has been described by the historian Cathy Gere as the ' Mona Lisa of prehistory'. The Mask of Agamemnon is a gold funerary mask discovered at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae in southern Greece. The mask in the National Archaeological Museum of Athensġ876 at Mycenae, Greece by Heinrich Schliemann

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