During excavations, Schliemann found several hundred gold and silver objects at Troy, including jewellery, masks, buttons, headwear, weapons and sculptures. But he was 'captivated' by a more ...

When Heinrich Schliemann excavated this level of Troy in 1873, he discovered a cache ... copper and bronze vessels, gold jewellery, including thousands of gold rings, and a range of other objects ...

During excavations, Schliemann found several hundred gold and silver objects at Troy, including jewellery, masks, buttons, headwear, weapons and sculptures. But he was 'captivated' by a more ...

Schliemann, armed with others’ research ... The Troy museum’s displays include a long-term loan of “Troy gold” jewellery from the University of Pennsylvania, which bought them in 1966.

BERLIN, Aug. 27. -- The interest in Schliemann's excavations at Hissarlik, the site of ancient Troy, has recently been revived by the persistent attacks of the skeptical Capt. Boetticher ...

But as Schliemann dug, he was pinning his hopes on finding the ruins of the most famous city in classical literature: Troy. And he did. Hisarlik is now widely accepted as the setting for Homer’s ...

Over a few short months in 1871, Heinrich Schliemann achieved a task that had eluded literature’s fiercest ensemble of warriors: he breached the supposedly impregnable walls of Troy. To do so ...

the ruler of Troy at the time of the legendary 10-year siege. The collection of jewellery, which Schliemann liked to bedeck his young Greek wife with, was later displayed with other finds in a ...

Claiming that the treasure confirmed the site was Homeric Troy, Schliemann called his bounty “Priam’s Treasure,” attributing it to the Trojan monarch in the Iliad. As it turned out ...

During his excavation of Troy and other sites, Schliemann came across examples of a drinking vessel known as a depas goblet (depas amphikypellon), which is distinct for its slender body and two ...

A depas goblet excavated from the ruins of Troy by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s University of Tübingen In the first book of the Iliad, the god Hephaestus passes a “double goblet” around ...