WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -This search eventually led Schliemann to excavate the ancient city of Mycenae in Greece from 1874 onwards. There he found evidence of a great civilisation, which he called the Myceanaeans.

Detailed explanation-3: -Schliemann first uncovered evidence of a civilization that predated Classical Greece by over a thousand years in Troy, on the eastern coast of Turkey. He then turned to Greece, where his excavations around the Peloponnese finally located Mycenae.

Detailed explanation-4: -Heinrich Schliemann, in full Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann, (born January 6, 1822, Neubukow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin [Germany]-died December 26, 1890, Naples, Italy), German archaeologist and excavator of Troy, Mycenae, and Tiryns.