WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Troy, with its 4, 000 years of history, is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. The first excavations at the site were undertaken by the famous archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1870.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Heinrich Schliemann’s fascination for Troy The boy firmly believed that there should be at least some remains of the city walls, and dreamed of unearthing Troy. Schliemann clung to his ambition for more than 40 years, until he began with unauthorized excavations in 1870 at Hisarlik, in present-day Anatolia in Turkey.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1884 Schliemann, together with Dörpfeld, excavated the great fortified site of Tiryns near Mycenae.