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Before Dr. Schliemann started his excavations in Asia Minor, said Professor Goodwin, no Troy was known of. It was said that the Greek poets set their heroes in a wonder land, and men claimed there was no evidence that Troy ever existed. The earlier chapters of the city were lost, not only in history, but in myth. Mycenx's kings were great in power and wealth and any one could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself...
...Schliemann made a great discovery. Upon excavating the so-called hill of Troy, he found it to be a heap of walls, houses and rubbish, for fully half its height. On a hill which was originally sixty feet high, nine different settlements had been built; city upon city. The second city was built high walled upon the first, and was followed by the third, fourth, and fifth, in nearly the same limits, until the builders of the sixth city extended bounds and founded Troy. On Troy were built two unimportant Greek cities and, finally, in the time of Augustus...
...Schliemann began his excavations by digging a trench from the north through the hill. He found that Troy was surrounded by high walls of stone, surmounted by sun-dried bricks. The bricks were slabs, one foot and a half by four inches, held in place by uprights and cross-beams of wood. Every fourth course of bricks was replaced by a cross beam...
...cities were discovered by Dr. Schliemann before his death brought to an end what was thought to be the last chapter in the re-discovery of Troy...
...England Magazine for April contains several notable articles on subjects of special interest to Harvard men. All students in Greek archaeology know of Schliemann and his valuable work, and in the April issue of this magazine are "Personal Recollections of Schliemann," a gossipy paper, full of amusing anecdotes of the great archaeologist, especially interesting at this time, when the air is full of biographical projects concerning him. The writer, Hon. Charles R. Tuckerman, at one time United States Minister to Greece, was a warm friend of Schliemann's, and his reminiscences have a strong personal flavor which renders them doubly...