Heinrich Schliemann

“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.”

“We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.”

“From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.”