The grandson of the discoverer of Troy, Heinrich Schliemann, Paul Schliemann, became famous for publishing a long article in the New York American newspaper in 1912 entitled "How I Discovered Atlantis, the Origin of All Civilizations." Perhaps he was just tired of being a little man with a famous surname and decided to become famous, but perhaps he was driven by really scientific interests
In his article, Paul Schliemann argued that his grandfather, a few days before his death, which occurred in 1890 in Naples, gave one of his friends a sealed envelope with the inscription: “Only one of the family members who will devote his life to the search mentioned here is allowed to open it. . And literally an hour before his death, Heinrich Schliemann allegedly wrote a strange note to the sealed envelope, where he asked to break a kind of vase in the form of an owl's head and examine what
is hidden in it. Further, it was necessary to conduct excavations in the eastern part of the temple in Sais and in the Shakuna cemetery, where there are some evidence in favor of Atlantis.
After several years of study in Russia, Germany and the East, Paul Schliemann decided to continue the work of his grandfather. In 1906, he tore off the seal from the envelope, which, as it turned out, contained the notes made by Schliemann Sr.: “Whoever opens the envelope must take an oath that he will continue the work that I left unfinished. I came to the conclusion that Atlantis was not only a large continent between America and the west coast of Africa and Europe, but also the cradle of our entire culture.
Some experts are of the opinion that the legends about Atlantis are just an invention, built on the basis of fragmentary information about the Flood, while others consider them a historical fact, but they have no way to prove it. The attached materials contain documents that, in my opinion, should be taken into account. Whoever wants to know them better should continue my research in order to achieve the goal as far as possible, firstly, using the facts that I give him in his hands, and secondly, not keeping a secret that I made this discovery. The French bank, upon presentation of the enclosed receipt, will issue the amount transferred to it for safekeeping, which is quite sufficient for the costs associated with research work. May the Almighty bless this important matter!"
Evidence from papyrin
In another document, Heinrich Schliemann said that during the excavation of Troy he found an unusual vase, which contained clay shards, small gold items and coins. The vase itself and some of the items bore an inscription made in Egyptian hieroglyphs: "From the king Chronos of Atlantis." The great archaeologist wrote that in 1883 at the Louvre he discovered a collection of objects from the excavations at Tiahuanaco in Central America. Among them were exactly the same as in the vase from Troy.
Heinrich Schliemann examined these objects chemically and under a microscope. Analysis of the metal objects showed that they are composed of an alloy of platinum, aluminum and copper, which has never been found anywhere else. All of these things clearly did not originate from Phenicia or Central America, but came to different countries from the same source. The inscription on them indicated that this source is Atlantis.
Heinrich Schliemann in one of the museums of St. Petersburg found a scroll of papyrus from the reign of Pharaoh Saint from the second dynasty, dating back then 46 century BC. This papyrus contained a description of the pharaoh's expedition to the west in search of traces of the "land of Atlantis", from where the ancestors of the Egyptians had arrived 3350 years before. Another papyrus from the same museum, by the Egyptian historian Manetho, indicates a period of 13,900 years prior to the reign of the Atlantean wise men. Thus, the papyrus specified that the history of Egypt began about 16,000 years ago.
Heinrich Schliemann allegedly concluded that neither the Egyptians nor the Mayans, the creators of the pre-Aztec Central American culture, were never good navigators and had no ships capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean. He also said with full confidence that the Phoenicians would not have been able to establish a connection between the countries of the two hemispheres. But the similarities between ancient Egyptian culture and Maya culture are so great that it cannot be considered accidental. There are no such accidents. Schliemann Sr. did not exclude the possibility that once there was a huge continent that connected the New World with the Old. This was Atlantis. Its inhabitants founded their colonies in Egypt and Central America.
Search result
After reviewing the documents, Paul Schliemann worked tirelessly for six years in Egypt, Central America and in various archaeological museums around the world. He claimed to have discovered facts in favor of the real existence of Atlantis.
Schliemann, the grandson, began by going to Paris. There, in the agreed place, he found a Trojan vase in the form of an owl's head and read on it the inscription in Phoenician letters "From King Chronos of Atlantis." Having smashed the vase, Paul found at its bottom a quadrangular white-silver metal plate, apparently a coin with intricate figures and signs that did not resemble the usual hieroglyphs and letters. On the reverse side of it there was an ancient Nephenician inscription: "Issued in the Temple of the transparent walls." There were also other objects from Atlantis: a ring made of some amazing metal, an extraordinary elephant made of fossilized bone, as well as the plan according to which the ancient Egyptian captain searched for Atlantis.
Going to Egypt, Schliemann the grandson began excavations in the Sais ruins. One day he met an Egyptian archer who showed him a collection of old coins found in the tomb of a priest of the first dynasty. It contained several coins identical to those found in the Trojan vase. Later, the grandson of the great archaeologist, together with two French specialists in the field of geology, studied the west coast of Africa. They found that the entire coast was covered with rocks of volcanic origin. The impression was that some continent was as if torn off from the coast as a result of volcanic activity. In those places Paul Schliemann found an image of a child's head made of the same metal as the ring and coins. Coins of Atlantis, differing from each other only in inscriptions, he found in Central and South America, in particular, in Tiahuanaco.
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Paul Schliemann considered himself entitled to assert that these unusual coins were in circulation in Atlantis 40,000 years ago. He based this assumption not only on his own research, but also on some of his grandfather's works, which he preferred not to mention. Due to the limited space in the article, he did not talk about hieroglyphs and other discovered evidence, which fully convinced him that the cultures of Egypt, Mycenae, Central and South America, like the cultures of the Mediterranean, had a common source.
Strange death
Paul Schliemann promised to fully declassify his discoveries in a book that will tell everything about Atlantis. Alas, the book never saw the light of day. A vase in the shape of an owl's head, coins and other priceless relics were gone.
An employee of Heinrich Schliemann, Wilhelm Dörpfeld, answering questions about this case, wrote that, as far as he knew, his boss had never shown a particular interest in Atlantis and did not conduct any significant research on this issue.
However, there are other facts as well. Paul Schliemann died a violent death shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Usually, those who know too much and talked too much about die like that. Perhaps Schliemann's killer also stole mysterious objects. It is not entirely clear why a young scientist should go to such a gross falsification, which not only undermined his own reputation, but also denigrated the name of his grandfather. Therefore, it is hardly appropriate to say definitively whether it was a pseudoscientific hoax or some dark story in which some secret powerful forces were implicated.
Valdis PEYPINSH