He argued that Bunarbashi was not the site he desired to find, but that Hisarlik was, in his 1868 Ithaca, the Peloponnes & Troy.
His life's achievement was inspired by a picture of a burning city in a book his father gave him. He became a US citizen after getting rich as a military contractor in the Crimean War. He argued that Bunarbashi was not the site he desired to find, but that Hisarlik was, in his 1868 Ithaca, the Peloponnes & Troy. FTP, name this man who later proved his claim in his excavations.
His life's achievement was inspired by a picture of a burning city in a book his father gave him.
Heinrich Schliemann