Schliemann Blew Past Troy's Real Layers — and Archaeology Had to Rebuild Itself

Schliemann Blew Past Troy's Real Layers — and Archaeology Had to Rebuild Itself

When Heinrich Schliemann drove a trench straight through Hissarlik in 1873, he erased centuries of human history and missed his actual target by a thousand years — forcing archaeology to invent the rigorous methods it had never bothered to develop.