Priam’s Treasure
Schliemann finds 'Trojan gold' and makes up how he got it out
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Around 27 May 1873 Heinrich Schliemann found gold diadems, thousands of rings and vessels at Hisarlik and named them the treasure of King Priam; the Troy II layer later proved about a thousand years older than Homer's Troy. Kept in Berlin, the hoard was taken to Moscow in 1945, and only in 1994 did the Pushkin Museum admit it had the Trojan gold.
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- 1871 Unification of Germany — 2 years earlier
- 1874 First Impressionist exhibition — 1 year later
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 13 years later
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 16 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 12 years earlier
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Asia
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