Poster of Lost Worlds  The Story Of Archaeology - Season 1 - Episode 4 - Digging by the Book

Lost Worlds The Story Of Archaeology - Season 1 - Digging by the Book (Episode 4)

Plot: Program Archaeology While most read Homer’s Iliad as an entertaining epic, one man believed it was more than a story and could actually be used as a literary map to find ancient Troy; his name was Heinrich Schliemann and he found treasure and a buried city in what is now Turkey. But was it Troy? This video looks at "program archaeology," how archaeologists dig in the ground to find evidence for the stories in books
Episode Aired On:
Thursday, April 27 2000
24 years ago