... fraud in both his personal life and in his career as an archeologist. J. Lesley Fitton, William Caulder, David Traiil, and David Turner are just four of the thousands of educated scholars that have taken it upon themselves to learn about Schliemann and to recognize and uncover the crucial lies that Schliemann told time and again about himself and about his career. Schliemann's personal life was full of grand achievements and grave deficits, and in all of his years of fame and stardom, he managed to keep track of his thoughts and experiences by writing in journals and composing letters to friends and colleagues. The only reliable information that exists today about Schliemann, however, is the factual information in reference to his early childhood. Although throughout her much praised book The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age she tends to be moderately sympathetic towards Schliemann despite numerous accounts of him ...

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