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Georg Karo
German art historian and archaeologist (1872-1963) · Germany · On the map · Academics · Died at 91
Georg Heinrich Karo was a German archaeologist who specialised in Mycenaean and Etruscan civilisation. He was twice director of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens (DAI), in which capacity he excavated the Mycenaean site of Tiryns.
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Grave Circle A at Mycenae, excavated by Heinrich Schliemann and Panagiotis Stamatakis in 1876-77: Karo published the finds from the site between 1912 and 1933.
The altar of the Temple of Artemis on Corfu: Karo attended excavations at the site in 1911.
Byzantine remains at Sardis, photographed in 2015
The Arts and Sciences Hall (formerly McMicken Hall) of the University of Cincinnati, where Karo taught following his arrival in the US in 1939Awards
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A colleague of Wilhelm Dörpfeld, who had worked with Heinrich Schliemann at Troy, Karo published the findings from Schliemann's excavations of Grave Circle A at Mycenae. The work was considered Karo's greatest contribution to scholarship.
