Destruction of Troy by the Greeks, 1183 BCE
Ignoring scholars who insisted the Illiad was fiction, Heinrich Schliemann used Homer’s book as a guide and excavated at Hissarlik and uncovered Troy. Whether the events described in the Illiad are historically accurate is debated by scholars.
“Books in Brief- The Bull of Minos- The Discoveries of Schliemann and Evans,” BAR Nov-Dec 1987.
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