SIFTING THE EVIDENCE

Top, Heinrich Schliemann, a German businessman and amateur archaeologist, led the first formal excavations at Troy in the 1870s. Middle, the American Carl Blegen, digging in the 1930s, found evidence of a siege from the late Bronze Age, helping corroborate accounts from the Iliad. Bottom, Manfred Korfmann led excavations from 1988 to 2005.