Heinrich Schliemann's The Truth Behind Troy

Throughout history “The Truth behind Troy” has been documented and talked about for many centuries. In my opinion most of the research and scholarly evidence of Hisarlik clearly shows that our current knowledge of the famous ancient city of Troy is based on Homer’s writings and archaeological discoveries made by the German archaeologist and excavator Heinrich Schliemann. Many have agreed that Homer should be acknowledged as a legitimate source of historical reference and therefore, so should Schliemann.

It is widely assumed the real reason for the Trojan War was due to the desire to dominate the trade industry by controlling the trade from Asia into the Aegean Sea. Scholars claim that the trade from Asia had to travel through Troy, which in turn gave the city its wealth and significance. However, it is questionable that a simple story of a war over trade routes would have endured over time. On the other hand, when coupled with a story of love and hate over the world’s most beautiful women in …show more content…
Sending the workers home he and his wife secreted many of the remains away from the site ignoring his commitment to not demolish structures and to turn one half of his finds over to the state. Fortunately, Schliemann took numerous notes and documented his findings, Schliemann was also learning, by trial and error, more systematic methods of excavation. Consequently, he deserves credit for being one of the first archaeologists to understand the value of pottery by sequencing, and dating pottery shreds where he compared them in succession to other shreds. At Troy, Schliemann also developed a type of stratigraphy, whereby layers of a site are carefully dated one by one. It was also said that despite his unorthodox style of excavation, many agree that Schliemann laid the foundations which his successors built