Dr. Schliemann seems to have at last verified his conjecture
that the golden masks which he finds on the faces of those buried in the tomb called "the tomb of Agamemnon," at Mycenee, are intended as copies of the faces which lie beneath them. He has found one face,—belonging to a body of enormous height, the bones of which had been greatly squeezed to get it into a six- feet-long compartment,—whose mouth and eyes and teeth were perfect, though the nose had completely vanished ; and this body, dating from the heroic age of Greece, he has managed to preserve. The mask, he says, was certainly a copy Of the face, so far as he could still compare the two ; and he was more than ever satisfied by the results of that comparison of the truth of his theory that to perpetuate the shape of the features was one of the objects of these golden masks. In the tomb was found also a small wooden box, with carvings of a dog and a lion on each side, so that the corpse belongs to an age which could carve in wood, as well as work in gold and bronze.
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