Researchers at Troy

With Homer's Iliad as his guide, Heinrich Schliemann (above left) went hunting for ancient Troy in 1870. The methodical techniques he developed during his twenty years at the site form the basis of modern archaeology. Unlike his successors, Wilhelm Dorpfeld (1890-94), Carl Blegen (1932-38) and Manfred Korfmann (1988-, above right), Schliemann's main aim was sensation. He falsely christened gold jewelry from the Troy II layers "King Priam's Treasure" (the photo shows his wife, Sophia, wearing the most famous pieces). After smuggling the finds out of Turkey, he presented them to Berlin museums, from where they vanished without trace at the end of World War II. In 1993, Russia admitted being in possession of the treasure, and in October 1994, a team of western researchers led by Manfred Korfmann was able to investigate the finds in Moscow's Pushkin Museum.