Discovered: 1873: Site of Ancient Troy in modern Turkey.Material: Gold, Silver, Copper, Terracotta.Explore Heinrich Schliemann’s Discoveries The jewels are dated from an earlier period to the Trojan War. Part of Priam’s treasure discovered at the Trojan site in 1873. It is claimed that Schliemann’s excavations were carried out with such haste and non-archaeological methods that “he did to Troy what the Greeks couldn’t do in their time.” Other scholars agree that the damage caused to the site is irreparable. Later, archaeologists condemned Schliemann’s excavations as having destroyed the first layers of the real Troy. Portrait of Sophia Schliemann (wife Heinrich Schliemann) wearing “Jewels of Helen” from “Treasure of Priam.” It would, however, have been impossible for me to have removed the Treasure without the help of my dear wife, who stood by me ready to pack the things which I cut out in her shawl and to carry them away.”
… While the men were eating and resting, I cut out the Treasure with a large knife…. … To withdraw the treasure from the greed of my workmen, and to save it for archaeology, … I immediately had lunch break called. “In excavating this wall further and directly by the side of the palace of King Priam, I came upon a large copper article of the most remarkable form, which attracted my attention all the more as I thought I saw gold behind it. Heinrich Schliemann declared one of these cities to be Troy, and this declaration was widely accepted at that time and publicized in the global press. Schliemann reported the discovery as follows:
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The stories of Heinrich Schliemann’s discoveries are now famous and controversial.ĭuring 1871-73 and then 1878–79, Schliemann excavated a hill called Hissarlik in the Ottoman Empire, near the town of Chanak (Çanakkale) in north-western Anatolia, Turkey.Īt this site, he discovered the ruins of a series of ancient cities, dating from the Bronze Age to the Roman period. Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.Many experts believe that the treasures are a thousand years older than Homer’s King Priam of Troy, who died about 1200 B.C. The artifacts discovered at ancient Troy are now spread across multiple museums including: Schliemann’s finds pre-dated Priam the King of Troy, of Trojan War fame, by hundreds of years.
This assumption was the result of Schliemann’s ambition to find sites and objects mentioned in Homer’s epics, which took place in southwestern Turkey.Īt that time, archaeology was in its infancy, and the stratigraphy at Troy had not been scientifically undertaken.įollowing Schliemann’s discoveries, the layer in which “Priam’s Treasure” was alleged to have been found, has been historically assessed and assigned to an earlier period of Troy. Schliemann claimed the site to be that of ancient Troy and therefore assigned the artifacts to the King Priam of Troy, from Homeric. “Priam’s Treasure” was a cache of jewelry, gold, copper, terracotta and other ancient artifacts discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1873.Ī partial catalog of the treasure is shown in this 1880 photograph This “Treasure from Troy” is part of what became called the “Treasure of Priam” discovered in the ancient site of Troy, which is in modern-day Turkey.Īncient Troy was the setting of the Trojan War described in the Iliad, one of the epic poems by Homer.
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