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Born 200 years ago in Germany, the adventurer-archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was obsessed with finding the kingdom of Troy described in Homer's "Iliad."
With a copy of Homer's "Iliad," the archaelogist went searching for years for the remains of Troy, long thought merely legendary. He began with the excavation 150 years ago.