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Amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann famously found Troy by following Homer's description. What exact passages of the Iliad & Odyssey did he use to narrow down its location among hundreds of miles of Anatolian coastline?

by /u/ChubbyHistorian in /r/AskHistorians

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