The Gold of Troy 🐴 Once upon a time there was an unusual man: an excellent entrepreneur, a polyglot and a self-taught archaeologist, and also a bit of a greedy person, a dreamer and a big fan of Ancient Greece... His name was Heinrich Schliemann 🧐 The world knows him as the discoverer of the legendary Troy and as the man who found the treasure of the mighty ruler Priam! Although the scientific community decided back in the 19th century that Heinrich did not find Troy at all, and the treasure could be a fake (There are still discussions about this) 🤓 The biography of Heinrich Schliemann is a separate topic for a fascinating book to be written on, and we will not be able to cover it within the framework of a short post. I will only say that his whole life from early childhood was connected with scandals and adventures and when he found the treasures - another major scandal broke out 😱 The whole point is that Schliemann stole the treasure from his own excavations and smuggled them from the Ottoman Empire to Greece! There they became the property of his personal collection and surfaced in the newspapers only a few months after the discovery - the photographs showed Schliemann's wife wearing gold jewelry and the legendary diadem of Helen of Troy 👑 Newspapers began to be full of headlines about the fact that a self-taught German archaeologist had found Troy 🤯 Heated discussions flared up in the scientific community about Heinrich Schliemann being an amateur and a falsifier, the Ottoman Empire demanding its valuables back, and young Greece, which had recently gained independence, modestly trying to ask Schliemann for Priam's treasure as a gift to the state - in general, passions flared up in earnest 😵‍💫 This post is so big that it didn’t fit in the format haha! The rest of the text will be in the comments below! 😅 #cute #teen #babyface #nerd #skinny