“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 moved to Indianapolis in 1869. (Photo courtesy of the University Library Heidelberg) Heinrich Schliemann didn’t spend long in Indianapolis, but he is one of the most colorful ...

From early childhood, German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was obsessed with the Greek legend of Troy. He was also the one who most famously excavated the city that fascinates people still today.

Schliemann believed that the Troy ruled over by King Priam, as in the Iliad, would be found at the deepest layer of the city, and so, beginning in 1870, he aimed for the base of Hisarlik’s mound.

By Peter Ackroyd NAN A. TALESE/DOUBLEDAY; 212 PAGES; $23 It used to be said that every schoolchild knew Heinrich Schliemann, but a quick survey disclosed that that is no longer the case.

Heinrich Schliemann, born in 1822 near the German city of Rostock, did not have a lucky start in life. Due to financial hardship, he broke off his studies as a young man and began a business ...

Heinrich Schliemann, a wealthy German businessman who turned his attention to Mycenae in 1876 after digging up Troy, was a careless excavator; his insistence on linking his finds with Homer's ...

A team of researchers from the universities of Tübingen, Bonn, and Jena has conclusively demonstrated that wine was consumed in the ancient city of Troy, providing chemical evidence that supports a ...

Heinrich Schliemann News from United Press International.Today is Thursday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 2005 with 359 to follow.

When the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann arrived in 1876, Agamemnon’s ancestral two-storey house was the largest building in the nearby hamlet of Harvati – later renamed Mycenae.