Where is Homer's grave?

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A bust of Homer from Roman Period.
Between February and April of 1772, the English and French newspapers were full of announcements that Homer's grave is finally found. The source was the claims of an amateur archaeologist Pasch van Krienen, who was from a Dutch family but born in Prussia. He worked in Russian fleet in Aegean Sea. During his mission he dedicated himself to archaeological research and after reading texts about Homer, he decided to sail to the Cycladic islands in Greece to find Homer's grave. In one of the islands, after long conversations with the inhabitants and after he gave some money to them, they showed him a place supposed to be Homer's grave. Our Homer hunter lost no time and began to dig the place. He found three sarcophagus.

Skeletons in the first two were too big, but the real treasure was in the third one: As soon as the workers opened up the sarcophagus, van Krienen saw an embossing. There was portrayed a man with ink and quill pen at his hand, and there was a tool to sharpen the quill pen. But the most important thing was a medallion written on it: HOMEROS. But since the sarcophagus cover was too heavy, the workers should drop it. Next day they came back with more workers, but they realized that there was nothing left from embossings.

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