Troy- Schliemann's Trench
Troy- Schliemann's Trench
Troy- The Ramp
Troy- Site Where Schliemann Found Treasure
Troy- Little Owl at the Sanctuary
Troy- Roman Odeon
Troy- Roman Odeon
Troy- The South Gate
Troy- Drainage Channel at the South Gate
Troy- The Sanctuary
Troy- Wall Above the Roman Odeon
Troy- The Sanctuary
Troy- Gokcal Mosque
Troy- Tourists Inside the 1975 Representation of t…
Troy- 1975 Representation of the Wooden Horse
Early Evening in Ayvalik
Ayvalik- Old Boat Serving as a Cafe
Ayvalik- Halic Park Hotel Reflections
Ayvalik- Halic Park Hotel
Ayvalik- Halic Park Hotel
View Over Ayvalik
View Over Ayvalik
Ayvalik- Looking Towards the Halic Park Hotel
Troy- Fortification Wall
Troy- The Megaron Building
Troy- Citadel Wall
Troy- View Towards the Dardanelles From the Northe…
Troy- Citadel Wall
Troy- Northeast Bastion
Troy- The East Wall
Our Tour Bus Gets a Clean
Pergamon- Cable Car From the Acropolis
Pergamon- Trajan's Temple
Pergamon- Trajan's Temple
Pergamon- Sculpture at Trajan's Temple
Pergamon- Kestel Cayi Reservoir
Pergamon- Remains of the Arsenal
Pergamon- Hellenistic Temple
Pergamon- Trajan's Temple
Pergamon- Trajan's Temple
Pergamon- Tourists Above the Hellenistic Theatre
Pergamon- View of Bergama Through an Arch
Pergamon- Agora
Pergamon- Holy Square of Athena
Izmir- Ferry 'Buyuk Besiktas'
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Troy- Houses in Schliemann's Trench
In 1868, Heinrich Schliemann, a wealthy German businessman, began to excavate the site. He was determined to find the city which had been destroyed in the Trojan War, so he dug a great trench across the site, looking for a walled city that had been destroyed by fire. He scattered anything in his way, including part of a Greek temple. Unfortunately he dug right past the actual level he was looking for. Famously, he found, or claimed to have found 'Priam's Treasure', consisting of bronze axes, a plate cauldron and vase of bronze, gold vessels and gold jewellery. He found it in June 1873, claiming that his wife Sophia had helped him smuggle it off site in her shawl (she wasn't actually there at the time). He smuggled it out of Turkey, to Germany and presented it to the German Government and was displayed in a Berlin museum. It disappeared in WW2 and re-surfaced in Moscow in 1994. (www.forumancientcoins.com)
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