The Amateur Who Found (and Destroyed) Ancient Troy
March 18, 2026
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as posted by the channelThe modern history of Troy is deeply tied to an amateur German scholar named Heinrich Schliemann. In the 1870s, he eagerly excavated a mound called Hisarlik, discovering nine ancient cities built on top of one another. He claimed the second oldest, Troy II, was Homer's legendary city and famously draped his 16-year-old wife in "Priam's Treasure". Unfortunately, in his reckless haste to dig deep, Schliemann carelessly threw out the upper archaeological layers that were much more likely to be the actual Troy from the Iliad! #AncientTroy #Archaeology #HeinrichSchliemann #HistoryShorts #Iliad #AncientGreece #GreekHistory #HistoricalMysteries
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