Did Heinrich Schliemann Really Steal Credit for the Discovery of Troy?

On May 27, 1873, Heinrich Schliemann discovered "Priam's Treasure" a cache of gold and other objects in Hisarlik (Troy) in Anatolia. He excavated the site and found the cache of artifacts, but it was Frank Calvert who actually discovered the location of Troy. Schliemann never gave Calvert any credit and inflated his own role. Definitely a flawed man. An excerpt:

"The reality, according to David Traill's 1995 biography, Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit, and bolstered by Susan Heuck Allen's 1999 work Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann, is that most of this is romantic baloney, manufactured by Schliemann for the sake of his own image, ego, and public persona.


Schliemann was a brilliant, gregarious, enormously talented, and extremely restless con man, who nevertheless changed the course of archaeology. His focused interest in the sites and events of the Iliad created widespread belief in their physical reality—and in so doing, made many people search for the real pieces of the world's ancient writings. It could be argued that he was among the earliest and most successful of public archaeologists."