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The Discovery of Troy: How Schliemann’s Obsession Changed Archaeology

The Discovery of Troy: How Schliemann’s Obsession Changed ArchaeologyFor centuries, the story of the Trojan War and the city of Troy were widely considered by modern historians to be nothing more than myth and poetic invention by Homer in the Iliad. That all changed in the 1870s when a wealthy German businessman and amateur archaeologist named Heinrich Schliemann set out to prove that the legends were rooted in historical fact. His relentless, a…
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The Archaeologist broke the news on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
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