Heinrich Schliemann

"We could describe (Heinrich) Schliemann's excavations on the hill of Hissarlik and consider their results without speaking of Troy or even alluding to it," Georges Perrot wrote in 1891 in his Journal des Savants. "Even then, they would have added a whole new chapter to the history of civilization, the history of art" (qtd. in Duchêne 87). Heinrich Schliemann's life is the stuff fairy tales are made of. A poor, uneducated, and motherless boy rises through …

…firstnethou.com/annam/costhist.html/minoan.html/index.html> Traill, David. Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. "Troy." Thinkquest Organization, <http://www.thinkquest.org/tqfans.html> "Troy VI." Dartmouth Archaeology, <http://devlab.cs.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/23.html> "TROY: 4000 year old Ancient City." <http://www.iit.edu/~agunsal/truva/truva/truva.html> "Western Anatolia and the Eastern Aegean." <http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/7.html#9>(3 July 1996)