You are more beautiful than Helen of Troy!Priam’s Treasure is a cache of gold and other artifa

You are more beautiful than Helen of Troy!Priam’s Treasure is a cache of gold and other artifacts discovered by classical archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann at Hissarlik in modern Turkey. The majority of the artifacts are currently in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.Schliemann claimed the site to be that of Homeric Troy, and assigned the artifacts to the Homeric king Priam. This assignment is now thought to be a result of Schliemann’s zeal to find sites and objects mentioned in the Homeric epics which take place in northwestern Turkey. At the time the stratigraphy at Troy had not been solidified, which was done subsequently by the archaeologist Carl Blegen. The layer in which Priam’s Treasure was alleged to have been found was assigned to Troy II, whereas Priam would have been king of Troy VI or VII, occupied hundreds of years later.Sophia Schliemann (née Engastromenos) wearing the Jewels of Helen excavated by her husband, Heinrich Schliemann, in Hisarlik (photograph taken ca. 1874) Big diadem with pendants shaped as “idols.” Gold; cat. 10. 2400—2300 BCE. Moscow, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. -- source link

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