The Greek Treasure Author:Irving Stone Rarely does the reader find in a novel that delightful joining of a love story, an adventure story, and the beginning of a new and fascinating science: archaeology, all combined in a wide panorama, a monumental tale. — Sophia Engastromenos was seventeen years old when an extraordinary fate overtook her. Henry Schliemann, forty-seven, who had beco... more »me an American citizen in order to secure a divorce from his Russian wife, whote to Sophia's relative in Athens, Bishop Vimpos, asking him to find a Greek girl who could be "the hand of God on my shoulder" in his search for the ancient city of Troy and the royal tombs of Mycenae...