Dr. Heinrich Schliemann, the archaeologist, whose death was announced yesterday, has been known the world over as the "Discoverer of Troy," and, although it is by no means certain that he has a ...

Over a few short months in 1871, Heinrich Schliemann achieved a task that had eluded literature’s fiercest ensemble of warriors: he breached the supposedly impregnable walls of Troy. To do so ...

Back in 1871, German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the legendary fortress city of Troy in western Turkey, near the Aegean coast. During excavations, Schliemann found several ...

Heinrich Schliemann, a German businessman and “amateur archaeologist with a penchant for embellishment,” discovered and haphazardly excavated the site in the 1870s, wrote Smithsonian magazine ...

When Adolf Hitler co-opted it, its meaning changed forever Lorraine Boissoneault; Updated by Sonja Anderson When German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann traveled to Ithaca, Greece, in 1868 ...

Heinrich Schliemann, the German archaeologist, was in Turkey in the late 19th century on an eccentric quest. He was excavating a tell—an artificial mound that covers long abandoned settlements.

Heinrich Schliemann, a German amateur archaeologist, started excavation of the ancient city in 1870. Schliemann had found that rather than one city, there had been at least nine built on top of ...

Heinrich Schliemann made a brief visit to the western Tokyo suburb of Hachioji during his monthlong stay in Japan in 1865 before he turned to archaeology and discovered the ancient city of Troy ...

The ruins of Troy were rediscovered over 150 years ago by a German businessman and amateur archeologist named Heinrich Schliemann. Among the artifacts Schliemann recovered in present-day Hisarlik ...

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