Schliemann’s Trench

Schliemann’s Trench is a site created by the excavations of german archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s.

In his pursuit to uncover the city of Troy described in Homer’s works, he made an aggressive attempt to excavate through settled upper layers of the city.

This 40 meter long trench revealed the oldest layers of Troy, bronze age cities with stone walls, numerous buildings, and a variety of ancient artifacts.

While the methodology used to dig the trench is far from ideal, it has provided a lot of meaningful insights into the multi-layered structure of the city of Troy.