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were found by Schliemann in excavating Hissarlik and 

 the site of ancient Troy, and some of them date from 

 3000 B.C. in layers of different ages. The vase on which 

 is painted the ornament shown in Fig. 43 is from Bceotia, 

 and belongs to the same early period — the " Mykenaean " 

 or " ^Egsean " before that of the Hellenes. It still 



Fig. 40. — Footprint of the Buddha, from an ancient Indian carving, 

 showing several swastikas. (Fergusson and Schliemann.) 



survives in the pottery of the Dipylon period (circa 

 800 B.C.), as is seen in the fragment drawn in Fig. 6, 

 Chapter I. The later Greeks of the great classical period 

 (Hellenes) did not use the Swastika. Nor has it been 

 found on the works of art of the ancient Egyptians, nor 

 in the remains of Babylonia, Assyria or Persia. It, in 

 fact, seems to have belonged especially to that ancient 

 "Minoan" civilization, the remains of which are found in 

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