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December 1890 V. Gordon Childe Heinrich Schliemann (German:
[ˈʃliːman]; 6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German
businessman and a pioneer of field archaeology. He was an
advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the
works of Homer. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of
Hissarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the
Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the
idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual
historical events. Schliemann's excavation of nine levels of
archaeological remains with dynamite has been criticized as
destructive of significant historical artifacts, including the
level that is believed to be the historical Troy. Along with
Arthur Evans, Schliemann was a pioneer in the study of Aegean
civilization in the Bronze Age. The two men knew of each other,
Evans having visited Schliemann's site