Heinrich Schliemann

Heinrich Schliemann (1822 – 1890) was a German archeologist.
==Biography==
In the 1870s, Schliemann led excavations at Mycenae and assumed the buried monuments outside the citadel were treasuries like those mentioned by Pausanias. He dubbed the largest monument the Treasury of Atreus.Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Argolis: Agamemnon's Tomb In 1876, during the Mycenaean excavation he unconvered a circle grave and mistakenly attributed it to the Mycenaean king Agamemnon. Schliemann alleged that a gold mask he found inside was "", however these two claims were later debunked.Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Mycenae: "Grave Circle"
In 1880, he began excavation of the city of Orchomenos in Boeotia and discovered and searched for the cities of Troy (three excavations; his first in 1870, then 1879, and 1883) and in 1884.Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Boeotia: Orchomenos
==Appearances==
*Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece 
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