"The new discoveries of the earliest age of Greece are chiefly associated with the name of , and rightly so, as his work first revealed prehistoric Greece to us. But since his time a totally new face has been given to our knowledge by the Cretan discoveries of and , which has rendered out of date all books on the general subject published before 1902. The now prehistooric Greece is very different from the old one of the two decades succeeding Schliemann’s discoveries. He, however, was the pioneer, and his finds explained various ieolaied discoveries made before his time, chiefly of vases, which it had been impossible to bring into any intelligible relation with our knowledge of the relics of classical antiquity. Best known to us of these are perhaps the vases of in , presented to the by in 1870."
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Henry Hall (Egyptologist)
(aka Harry Reginald Hall, 30 September 1873 – 13 October 1930) was an English , historian, museum curator, and editor of the '. He was elected in 1911 a and in 1926 a . In 's Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, he was Assistant Keeper from 1896 to 1924 and Keeper from 1924 until his death at age 57.
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