breathlessly, that he and his diggers had found the charred remains of a grand citadel destroyed in prehistory by hostile men--that he had found Troy just where Homer said it would be. The news was a worldwide sensation, and Schliemann's view that the Homeric epics were fairly accurate chronicles of Late Bronze Age history--that is, the Greek world of around 1200 BC--dominated scholarship for more than 50 years.But, in fact, Schliemann hadn't found Homer's Troy.
from The Boston Globe: Hidden Histories
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