No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.

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Schliemann's excavation of nine levels of archaeological remains with dynamite has been criticized as destructive of significant historical artifacts including the level that is believed to be the historical Troy. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of Hissarlik now presumed to be the site of Troy along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns.