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Georg Karo (1872–1963) 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 and the Temple of Artemis on Corfu . 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 to be Karo's greatest contribution to scholarship. He taught at Bonn between 1902 and 1905 before moving to the DAI in Athens as Dörpfeld's deputy. Although an early supporter of the Nazi government of Germany , Karo was forced from his post of director of the DAI in 1936 by antisemitism against his Jewish ancestry. In 1939, he fled to the United States, where he was accused of spying for the Nazi regime. He returned to Germany in 1952, and became an honorary professor at the University of Freiburg . ( Full article... )
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