biography
| name: |
Schliemann, Heinrich
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pronunciation:
[shleeman]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1822–90)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist, born in Neubukow, N Germany. After a successful business career, he retired early to realize his ambition of finding the site of the Homeric poems by excavating the tell at Hisarlik in Asia Minor, the traditional site of Troy. From 1871 he discovered nine superimposed city sites, one containing a considerable treasure (found 1873) which he over-hastily identified as Priam's. He also excavated several other Greek sites, including Mycenae (1876) and Tiryns (1884). |
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