Heinrich Schliemann, some would say, had a lifelong dream of one day finding and unearthing the lost city of ancient Troy that he had read about as a young boy in the myths written by Homer. As the years passed and Schliemann grew older, he never ceased to reject the prevailing scholarly doctrine that his beloved Homer was not a knowledgeable historian, but a mythmaker. In 1871, at the age of 49, Schliemann unearthed what he and the rest of the world believed to be Homer’s Troy. Other important archeologists followed in Schliemann’s footsteps and by excavating and studying key historical sites such as Troy, Mycenae and the mainland of Greece, Knossos, and Thera, they were in turn able to paint a fairly accurate picture of the history of
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