ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, Mask Of Agamemnon Room 04
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The Mask of Agamemnon is one of the treasures of the museum, and one of its best-loved symbols. Its beauty and the story of how it was discovered are themselves now legendary in Greece.
It was discovered by Heinrich Schliemann, a German with a passionate interest in Homer’s epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which tell the stories of the best-known gods and heroes of Western culture. Schliemann was obsessed with the idea of finding traces that would confirm that the stories were true....