GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -But in all that time, no one had ever been able to prove that the city described in Homer’s saga had really existed-until 1871, when Heinrich Schliemann, then 49 years old, discovered the ruins of what is now presumed to be the city under the Hisarlik hill in the Troas region in the northwest of present-day Turkey.

Detailed explanation-2: -Calvert helped Schliemann, but it would be Schliemann’s name that became world famous, as the pioneer of archaeology who discovered and revealed the site of ancient Troy. William Simpson, Excavations at Hissarlik.

Detailed explanation-3: -In northwestern Turkey, Heinrich Schliemann excavated the site believed to be Troy in 1870. Schliemann was a German adventurer and con-man who took sole credit for the discovery, even though he was digging at the site, called Hisarlik, at the behest of British archaeologist Frank Calvert.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1873 he uncovered fortifications and the remains of a city of great antiquity, and he discovered a treasure of gold jewelry (as well as vessels of bronze, gold, and silver), which he smuggled out of Turkey. He believed that the city he found was Homeric Troy.