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...consensus is that despite Schliemann's penchant for improving on the truth, most of his findings were legitimate and remarkable. No doubt remains that Troy existed, or that the mound known to Turks as Hissarlik is the site of the ancient city. Says Traill: "The great majority of Schliemann's reporting was borne out in detail after detail by subsequent archaeologists...
...Homer's descriptions of Troy's walls and gates sounded like history, not storytelling. And in excavations begun in 1870 at Hissarlik, a Turkish settlement south of the Dardanelles, he proved that he was right...
Stone picks up Schliemann's story a year earlier, when, at 47, he married his second wife, a 17-year-old Greek girl named Sophia. Her strength was a good match for Henry's. At the Hissarlik digs, she supervised excavation crews, classified artifacts and helped her husband smuggle out of Turkey a huge and ela orately worked store of gold objects−presumed by the exultant Schliemann to be the fabled treasure of Priam...
...date even remotely supports anything like the Homeric account of Helen's abduction and the Greeks' revenge. To begin with, says Berve, there is the site of Troy itself. Shortly after the German amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann began digging into an 85-ft.-high mound called Hissarlik (Turkish for palace) in the northwestern corner of Turkey in 1870, he decided that he had unearthed the remnants of Priam's palace and the Trojan King's treasure...
Date of Conflict: About 1100 B.C. Battlefield: The plains before the city of Troy, also known as Ilium, rediscovered in 1872 by the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at the site of the modern Hissarlik on the River Scamander in northwest Turkey, just south of the Aegean entrance to the Dardanelles...