“No legitimate archaeologist does this,” says National Geographic Explorer Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, of modern searches for evidence of Noah.
Meh, no legitimate archaelogists went searching for Troy either, until Schliemann did, and he found it.
Did you see “The Dig”? I think archaeologists are probably just about the way they are portrayed in that movie.
Exactly... until then everyone thought it was a fable or legend.
“Meh, no legitimate archaelogists went searching for Troy either, until Schliemann did, and he found it.”
—————The Facts—————
Anyone who has studied archaeology has heard of Heinrich Schliemann. He is popularly acclaimed as the bold, talented, German-American amateur archaeologist who discovered the lost city of Troy at Hisarlık in what is now northwest Turkey. In truth, this image is largely a fabrication of Schliemann’s own making. The real Heinrich Schliemann was a lying, cheating, grifting, thieving charlatan and overall scumbag who only became famous because he was extremely rich and highly skilled in the art of lying to make himself seem more impressive than he really was.
Even though Schliemann is popularly credited as the “discoverer” of Troy, he was not the first person to identify Hisarlık as Troy. He was not even the first person to excavate there. Furthermore, his attempts to excavate the ruins of Troy were so hopelessly incompetent that he ended up actually destroying most of the ancient site.
https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/09/24/heinrich-schliemann-debunked/
“Meh, no legitimate archaelogists went searching for Troy either, until Schliemann did, and he found it.”
Prior to him, most scholars thought Troy was mythical.
-PJ