CAROLINE MOOREHEAD - The Lost Treasures of Troy

London England, BCA, 1994. First BCA Edition, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0297815008 Hardback Stolen from their wartime hiding place in Berlin Zoo by Soviet soldiers in 1945, the famed gold treasures of the lost city of Troy, have not been seen since. As the world awaits the treasure's first public display by the Russians for almost sixty years, Caroline Moorehead tells the continuing story of loss and rediscovery suffered by King Priam's riches since Heinrich Schliemann, an archaeologist who had made his fortune in the Californian gold rush, first excavated the lost city of Troy on the shores of Asia Minor in the 1870s. The author spent two years on the trail of the lost treasures of Troy, and the strange and elusive Heinrich Schliemann and his young bridge Sophia Schliemann. Here she tells of the remarkable steps that lead him to Troy and the journey across Europe taken by the gold ever since. Illustrated.