1956 Press Photo Archeologist Dr. Erik Sjoqvist Talks with King Gustavus VI

Dr. Erik Sjoqvist (left) listens to a fellow archeologist, King Gustavus VI of Sweden, as he looks out over excavations at the site of mystery city in Sicily. Gustavus spent two weeks working at the site with members of a four months' expedition from Princeton University. The expedition was led by by Dr. Sjoqvist, Swedish-born professor of classical archeology at the university. He had discovered the site. His first clues were a 2,500 year old Greek stone coffin being used as a washtub by a Sicilian woman, and fragments of Doric columns built into farmers' huts. Another expedition from Princeton is under way to carry on the excavations. It is known that the city was Greek, that it flourished around 300 B.C. and that it was deserted overnight. Its still mysteries. Dr. Sjoqvist, on the basis of evidence uncovered thus far, thinks it was a Greek colonial city, settled in Sicily's interior as a link with the coast.

Photo is dated 1956.

Photo measures 7 x 9.25 inches.