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German scholars are locked in furious argument over a 3,000-year-old settlement. Was the mound at Hisarlik, in northwestern Anatolia, the site of a huge, prosperous, commercial city during the Late Bronze Age—even the site of Homer’s Troy? Or was it just a tiny backwater, perhaps a 017nobleman’s country estate? All Germany seems fascinated by the debate. Whatever the outcome, reputations will be besmirched and archaeological methods will be reconsidered. The dispute is now as much about media attention and politics as it is about Troy. 018 Heinrich Schliemann, the first excavator of Hisarlik, walked a precipitous path between fact […]

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Footnotes

See William Calder III’s review of Susan Heuck Allen’s Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik (Reviews, AO 03:03).

See the following articles: David A. Traill, “Priam’s Treasure: The 4,000-Year-Old Hoard of Trojan Gold,” AO 02:03; Traill and Igor Bogdanov, “Heinrich Schliemann: Improbable Archaeologist,” AO 02:03; and Susan Heuck Allen, “Priam’s Treasure in Boston?” AO 02:03.

See Birgit Brandau, “Can Archaeology Discover Homer’s Troy?” AO 01:01.

Endnotes

Heimlich Schliemann, Atlas Trojanische Alterthümer (Leipzig, 1874).

From an interview in Literaturen, October 2001.

Manfred Korfmann, Troia—Traum und Wirklichkeit (Stuttgard, 2001); this volume was written to accompany the exhibition.