Cuba

Hitherto the latter half of the 19th century, the historical consensus around Troy - the mythic, legendary location from Homer’s notable work, the Iliad - was thought to be just that - a legend. However, due to the work of Heinrich Schliemann, a famous German businessman and amateur archaeologist, we now know that Troy was a real place and that the millennia old Illiad had some historical truth to it. Schliemann was interested in the city of Troy from his boyhood, when he would read the Iliad and dream of himself in the situations and the vast lands Homer described. This, in turn, led him to a life of the pursuit of his childhood dream, Troy, which, of course, came