Troy and the Trojans. Volume 33 by Blegen, Carl W - 1963

New York: Frederick A. Praeger. Near Fine. 1963. Hardcover. Bright blue cloth with gilt decorative figure and lettering. An exceptionally handsome copy with a few edge fox marks. 240 pages. Illustrated with 67 photographs, 41 line drawings, and 1 map. This is volume 33 in the series Ancient Peoples and Places. General Editor is Dr. Clyn Daniel. Carl William Blegen (1887 – 1971) was an American archaeologist who worked on the site of Pylos in Greece and Troy in modern-day Turkey. He directed the University of Cincinnati excavations of the mound of Hisarlik, the site of Troy, from 1932 to 1938. Using material gleaned from the famous Cincinnati Expedition, as well as from his own exhaustive scholarship and fieldwork, Blegen takes us chapter by chapter through seven Troy "settlements," covering the period 3000 to 1000 B.C. ; Ancient Peoples and Places; 8vo .