1) There was a long debate over the location of ancient Troy during the 16th-17th centuries. In the 18th century, a Frenchman named Choiseul-Guthe led expeditions in northwest Anatolia and proposed that Troy was located near Pinarbasi, about 10km inland from the mound of Hissarlik.
2) In 1822, another scholar named McLaren stated that Hissarlik mound was the site of ancient Troy. In 1863, the British Consul Frank Calvert attempted to convince the British Museum to excavate the ruins at Hissarlik mound.
3) When Schliemann began excavating Hissarlik mound in the 1870s
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2. "Lost" during the XVI-XVII centuries "ancient Troy", historians of the
eighteenth century began to seek out. Subsequently, as on behalf of the French
Ambassador in Constantinople some Frenchman, Choiseul-Guthe, undertook
a number of expeditions in North-Western Anatolia (1785) and published a
description of this site, again broke out discussion about where exactly was
posted by Troy. On the proposal of the French city of Troy was supposed to be
about Pinarbasi, approximately 10 km in the direction of the mainland from
the mound Hissarlik; the latter was marked on the map, compiled by Choiseul-
Gutie as the location of the ruins". And guess, like some kind of ruins within
Hissarlik it is "ancient Troy was made before Heinrich Schliemann Frenchman
Choiseul-Gutie.
In addition, even in 1822 McLaren stated that the mound Hissarlik - this is
ancient Troy. Based on this, the British and in one and the same time the
American Consul Frank Calvert, whose family lived at the Dardanelles,
attempted to persuade sir Charles Newton, head of the Greco-Roman
collection of the British Museum in London, organized in 1863 expedition to
the excavations of the ruins on the hill Hissarlik".
3. Turkey thickly dotted with the
ruins of medieval settlements and
military fortifications. And it was
not practically easy to choose
befitting ruins" to make them the
remains of Homer's Troy. As one
of the candidates considered and
the ruins on the hill Hissarlik. But
both historians and archaeologists
perfectly aware that you still need
to dig out of the ground though,
or any other "proof" that this is
the Troy of Homer". To find at
least something! This "problem"
had successfully Schliemann. He
began excavations at the mound
of Hissarlik.
4. Freed from the land of the ruins showed that there actually was some settlement amount
just within 120×120 meters. Nothing "Homer" here, of course, was not even in the project.
These ruins in Turkey are encountered at every step. Apparently, Heinrich Schliemann
knew that it would take something amazing to draw the attention of the public to such
meager remains. Probably, there was a small Ottoman medieval military fortress or city.
Although Frank Calvert long ago began to declare that it is "ancient Troy, but nobody was
paying his expression almost no attention. Actually is clear: too little or ruins in Turkey!
Required "irrefutable proof". Then Schliemann in may 1873, "suddenly finds a hoard of
gold, and here's loudly announced his "antique gold of Troy". In other words, "the Troy",
which tells the famous Homer. Today this set of gold objects travels in various museums
around the world as the famous "treasures of ancient Troy".
5. There are reasons to suspect Schliemann that he simply ordered some
jewelers to make a "collection of ancient gold jewelry". Here we need to
remember that Schliemann was a very rich man. For example, he
financed the construction of the house of the German archeological
University in Athens". Ellie criş says: "His own state - apartment houses
in Indianapolis and in Paris - was considered as a base for research and
the basis of its independence".
It is likely that after this Schliemann secretly drove jewels in Turkey and
stated that "found" them in the ruins on the hill Hissarlik. In other
words, directly in the place where already a little earlier, some
enthusiasts" put ancient Troy". We see that Schliemann didn't even
bother to search for Troy. He just "argued" with the help of gold already
expressed earlier conjecture of Choiseul-Guthe and Frank Calvert.
What are they another place, Schliemann and there, with the same
triumph, and likewise quickly discovered the most ancient Priam's
treasure".