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12 January 2016

Heinrich Schliemann, the man who discovered Troy

Deutsche Welle, January 5, 2016

Heinrich Schliemann, the man who discovered Troy

Heinrich Schliemann established archeology as the science that we know today. The German adventurer and multi-millionaire, who died 125 years ago, discovered Troy and what he thought was the Treasure of Priam. Heinrich Schliemann was a complex character, part dreamer and part genius in disguise. Many of his contemporaries regarded him as a utopian, as he traveled around in Turkey equipped with little but a beat-up edition of Homer’s “Iliad.” Schliemann was determined to discover ancient Troy – and so he did.

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