Troy, The Ancient City In Homer's Iliad

In order to prove that Troy, the ancient city in Homer's Iliad, was true, an amateur German archeologist named Heinrich Schliemann excavated a hill, Hissarlik, in, back then, the Ottoman Empire, in the year 1871. He found which is believed to be Troy, and several other cities from the Bronze Age to the Roman period. And either on or about May 27, 1873, Schliemann reported, "In excavating this wall further and directly by the side of the palace of King Priam, I came upon a large copper article of the most remarkable form, which attracted my attention all the more as I thought I saw gold behind it. In order to withdraw the treasure from the greed of my workmen, and to save it for archaeology, …I immediately had "paidos" (lunch break) called. ….While the men were eating and resting, I cut out the treasure with a large knife…. It would, however, have been impossible for me to have removed the treasure without the help of my dear wife, who stood by me ready to pack the things which I cut out in her shawl and to carry them away." Heinrich's story about his …show more content…
Heinrich later smuggled the treasures out of Anatolia, and when the Ottoman government found out, they took his license to dig and sued Schliemann for the government's share of the gold. But later, Heinrich traded more gold in order to dig at Troy again. Some of the gold he traded was attained by the Royal Museums of Berlin in 1881, but disappeared in 1945, because the Red Army had secretly taken the treasure to the Soviet Union. It wasn't seen until 50 years later, in the Pushkin Museum in