Heinrich Schliemann's Mistakes In Ancient City Of Troy

Have you ever made a mistake before? Of course you have! Everyone makes mistakes, but sometimes those errors can be big. Mistakes have caused the ancient city of Troy to be destroyed, and they tend to cause more damage than they do progress, additionally even when there is a big discovery made by mistake, the very same people who made the discovery have to keep working for years for it to actually be of any use to anybody.

Troy. The grand city spoken of by the great poet Homer. Once complete, now in ruins. We owe this city being destroyed to Heinrich Schliemann. In 1868 Schliemann had been looking for Troy for years. He found out that Frank Calvert, a British archeologist, owned a small part of a site in Turkey, where he believed Troy had been founded. Schliemann decided to fund the work being done there. Schliemann thought that he knew everything; how to dig, where to dig, and how deep to dig. He was wrong. His mistake ended up destroying much of Troy, and while they did manage to find a few artifacts, countless more were destroyed and tossed aside with the dirt. Schliemann's carelessness demolished several clues to the history of Troy, and he still took credit for much of the discoveries. According to the article "Lost Cities, Lost Treasure", Calvert's family continues to fight for full credit to the discovery of Troy, …show more content…
Scientist suffer from being overshadowed by the things that happen on accident, throwing years of hard work down the drain. According to the article "In Praise of Careful Science", Scientist John Denker said that many "big discoveries" were actually invented step by step. Scientists work tirelessly to discover stuff such as magnetrons and radar, and then one more person comes along and finds out that they can cook food, and they get all the credit. Most errors do not lead directly to discoveries, in fact, Thomas Edison said that inventing is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent