my paper, I will argue the negative impacts of British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans and the amateur German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann on the history of Minoans and Trojans and the depiction of their culture. I will analyze the beginnings of Schliemann and Evans’s backgrounds and explore the impacts they had on their interpretation of artifacts and the manipulation that they created. With works from David A. Traill and Kenneth D.S. Lapatin, I will source as a way to develop a clear understanding of the long-lasting impacts on history while addressing counterarguments.
Research and temperament of artifacts committed by Arthur Evans help strengthen the white narrative of ancient civilizations and further disrupts the history of others. Lapatin writes, “[Evans] also constructed the civilization of the Minoans, as he called them, as a rival to the ancient Oriental societies of Egypt and Mesopotamia, a precursor to the Golden Age of Greece, and the earliest high culture of Europe” (34). This negative depiction of Egypt and Mesopotamia helps to further the racist narrative of these societies being less than. The glorification of the civilization of the Minoans further fuels the imagination of other Europeans, who trace their history back to the Romans, as Evans works to paint a perfect society. Evan’s choices can be due to his past career as a reporter who witnessed the religious violence between Crete’s Muslim and Christian populations....
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