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Other Key Players: Vin Ferrara '95-'96, Eion Hu '97, Brian Borg '96, Troy Jones '99, Tom Reardon '96, Kweli Thompson...
...TREASURES OF TROY...
...growing up in Ankershagen, Germany, in the early part of the 19th century, Heinrich Schliemann knew his destiny. He vowed that when he was a man, he'd prove that the people, places and events that had entranced him in Homer's Iliad--Helen and Agamemnon, the siege of Troy and the magnificent city itself--were more than just legends. Or so he later wrote. Like many of Schliemann's tales, this one may have been a trifle exaggerated. "In general, scholars accept the fact that Schliemann told a great many lies," says David Traill, a classicist at the University...
...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...
...Ozgen, the government's general director of monuments and museums, has sent nine communiques to officials in Bonn and Moscow, claiming ownership of the treasure and asking to be included in negotiations over their fate. "We have had no answer," he says. The Turks would like to gather the Troy artifacts from Russia, Germany and the other countries where they've been dispersed and display them in a museum near the actual site...