Contribution from the late Martin V. Shiloh.

One of these days, I'm going to post up some short biographies of the ESS members, founders and helpers.  Although, I did give a pretty extensive background on the whole organization.

One of the founding New York members (from around 1927) was a fellow called Martin V. Shiloh.

He was a specialist in archeology and loved to gallivant around Europe.  He had that typical Lovecraftian fascination with Hyperboria and Mu, the lost civilizations of the "Golden Age of Men."  Most his searching was in the Mediterranean with a Polish gentleman named Christoph Zebrowskiwho was a treasure hunter of sorts.  An Indiana Jones sort of fellow.  Professor Shiloh went missing in the fall of 1939 while researching in southern China.

Well, Professor Shiloh donated something like 85% of the ESS library and was a enormous archeology nerd.  His cataloged work and findings are so extensive (and unorganized) that I've only begun going through them (because I'm the young, stupid, clerical member of the society and Dr. Jones has way more going on).  But I found something cool and thought it deserved some attention.

From the papers with the photo:

"5/6/29.  Found in a burned longboat.  Remarkable craftsmanship.  Appears ceramic, very solid.  Depicts Thor struggling in coils of world serpent."

Professor Shiloh was a man of few words.