Melissa Purner: Response to Schliemann and Evans

Like many other people in our class I was somewhat appalled by the fact that Evans took it upon himself to reconstruct his finds at Knossos on the island of Crete.  While he may have been regarded as more "professional" by the archeology community, I find the fact that he tampered with an ancient site to have tainted it to some degree.  For those who visit the location from now on will only being seeing somewhat of the original beauty and wonder of the site, the rest has been tampered with by modern hands.

While Schliemann may have been considered less of a professional I have much more respect for him due to the fact that he left the site he excavated just how it was.  The Turkish site of Hissarlik was excavated purely due to Schliemann's romantic idea of what he might find.  However, through his excavation he was able to draw much publicity to the science of archeology.