<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/83e505fb-9eff-43f1-82ca-4cbecc3b0d85/BCC605FA-1601-4F6E-A444-2BA952115970/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://archaeology.about.com/od/ancientgreece/a/homeric1.htm" href="http://archaeology.about.com/od/ancientgreece/a/homeric1.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">archaeology.about.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://archaeology.about.com/od/ancientgreece/a/homeric1.htm"><DIV id="title"> <H1>Heinrich Schliemann and the Discovery of Troy</H1> <H2>Homeric Questions</H2> <P id="byline">By <A zt="18/1YF/Zf" href="http://archaeology.about.com/mbiopage.htm">K. Kris Hirst</A>, About.com</P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://archaeology.about.com/od/ancientgreece/a/homeric1.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/archaeology.about.com/img/B005D200-C81F-46FD-A26E-30F2F4FF0820" alt="Heinrich Schliemann, 1861, photograph in Traill 1995, used with permission" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://archaeology.about.com/od/ancientgreece/a/homeric1.htm">According to legend, the finder of the true site of Troy was <A href="http://archaeology.about.com/od/sterms/g/schliemannh.htm">Heinrich Schliemann</A>, adventurer, speaker of 15 languages, world traveler, and gifted amateur archaeologist. In his memoirs and books, Schliemann claimed that when he was eight, his father took him on his knee and told him the story of the <A href="http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/f/iliad1www.htm">Iliad</A>, the forbidden love between Helen, wife of the King of Sparta, and Paris, son of Priam of Troy, and how their elopement resulted in a war that destroyed a civilization. That story, said Schliemann, awoke in him a hunger to search for the archaeological proof of the existence of Troy and Tiryns and Mycenae. In fact, he was so hungry that he went into business to make his fortune so he could afford the search. And after much consideration and study and investigation, on his own he found the original site of Troy, at Hisarlik, a tell in Turkey. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BCC605FA-1601-4F6E-A444-2BA952115970/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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