IF THE GUY

IF THE GUY HAS NO HATERS THEN I'M DEAD HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN WAS A CONMAN WORST OF ALL HE DESTROYED ANCIENT TROY IN THE 1800S MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT THE CITIES THAT HOMER MENTIONED WERE NOT REAL BUT SCHLIEMANN BELIEVED THEY WERE RIGHT HE MADE ONE HUGE MISTAKE IN TRYING TO FIND TROY HE DUG THROUGH TROY YOU SEE THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF TROY HAS NINE LAYERS AND MODERN ARCHAEOLOGISTS THINK THAT THE TROY THAT HOMER MENTIONS IN THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY IS LAYER 6 BUT SCHLIEMANN THOUGHT IT WAS LAYER 2 AND HE DID NOT DIG PRECISELY HE DID NOT DIG PRECISELY HE DIDN'T DOCUMENT WELL HE DIDN'T HE BROUGHT IN HEAVY MACHINERY AND SMASH AND GRABBED DOWN TO THAT SECOND LAYER STRAIGHT THROUGH ANCIENT TROY THERE IS STILL A SCAR ON THE LAND TODAY KNOWN AS "SCHLIEMANN'S TRENCH" AND THE LOSS OF HISTORY HERE IS INCALCULABLE FOR EXAMPLE WE'VE NEVER FOUND THE WRITING SYSTEM OF TROY IF THEY HAD AND I'VE HEARD AN ARCHAEOLOGIST JOKE THAT MAYBE IT'S SITTING IN A DUMPSTER CARTED AWAY NOW GRANTED IT WAS 1874 TIMES WERE DIFFERENT BUT SCHLIEMANN WAS NOT A GOOD GUY A CHRONIC LIAR A CON MAN A BAD DUDE ON ONE HAND HE MADE A BIG CONTRIBUTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE OTHER HAND IF HE HADN'T DONE THIS AND SOMEONE ELSE HAD YOU KNOW DISCOVERED IT OR 30 YEARS LATER WE'D PROBABLY ALL BE WAY BETTER OFF NOW