"Greeks are terribly prone to be wonderstruck by the expense of home-products; distinguished historians have explained the Egyptian Pyramids in the greatest detail and not made the slightest mention of the treasure house of Minyas [at Orchomenos] or the walls of Tiryns, which are by no means less marvellous."
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Pausanias (Quoted by K.O. Müller) , in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Vol. I, published in 1987, by Martin Bernal
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Pausanias
Pausanias (c. AD 110 – 180) was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D.
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