“Heinrich Schliemann,” the author observes, “was a strange man.” Self-educated, he taught himself 22 languages, traveled around the world, and wrote at least seven major books.

Heinrich Schliemann, a German businessman and “amateur archaeologist with a penchant for embellishment,” discovered and haphazardly excavated the site in the 1870s, wrote Smithsonian magazine ...

Heinrich Schliemann made a brief visit to the western Tokyo suburb of Hachioji during his monthlong stay in Japan in 1865 before he turned to archaeology and discovered the ancient city of Troy ...

Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and pioneer in the field of archaeology. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavator of ...

However, Calvert didn’t have the money to finance a proper dig. Heinrich Schliemann, however, did. Schliemann was a wealthy German businessman and self-taught archaeologist. By the nineteenth century, ...

This gold death mask was found by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 during excavations of a Bronze Age tomb at the Mycenae archaeological site in southern Greece.

Growing up in 19th-century rural Germany, 7-year-old Heinrich Schliemann declared he would discover the ruins of Troy, the besieged city in Homer’s Greek epic, the Iliad. His father dismissed the ...

John F. Wilhelm, Heinrich Schliemann's Sacramento Connection, California History, Vol. 63, No. 3 (Summer, 1984), pp. 224-229 ...

When Heinrich Schliemann appeared in the Aegean in the 1870s, prehistoric archaeology in Greece was headed for a future very different from the one that subsequently materialized. The discoveries at ...