Editing Heinrich Schliemann (section)

==Death==
[[Image:Schliemann grave.jpg|thumb|Schliemann's grave in the [[First Cemetery of Athens]]]]

On 1 August 1890, Schliemann returned reluctantly to [[Athens]], and in November travelled to [[Halle, Saxony-Anhalt|Halle]], where his chronic ear infection was operated upon, on 13 November. The doctors deemed the operation a success, but his inner ear became painfully inflamed. Ignoring his doctors' advice, he left the hospital and travelled to [[Leipzig]], [[Berlin]] and [[Paris]]. From the last, he planned to return to [[Athens]] in time for Christmas, but his ear condition became even worse. Too sick to make the boat ride from [[Naples]] to [[Greece]], Schliemann remained in Naples but managed to make a journey to the ruins of [[Pompeii]]. On [[Christmas Day]] 1890, he collapsed into a coma; he died in a Naples hotel room the following day; the cause of death was [[cholesteatoma]].{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

His corpse was then transported by friends to the [[First Cemetery of Athens|First Cemetery]] in Athens. It was interred in a [[mausoleum]] shaped like a temple erected in ancient Greek style, designed by [[Ernst Ziller]] in the form of an [[amphiprostyle]] temple on top of a tall base. The [[frieze]] circling the outside of the mausoleum shows Schliemann conducting the excavations at Mycenae and other sites.