Heinrich Schliemann gets credit for finding Troy, but he wasn't alone. He was guided by amateur archaeologist Frank Calvert, an Englishman who owned part of the Hisarlik mound and was convinced it was Troy's location. Schliemann's aggressive obsession with Homer's epic led him to dig a massive trench straight through the heart of the site, destroying irreplaceable evidence from later periods. He initially declared 'Troy II' to be the city of the Trojan War, even finding what he called 'Priam's T