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The Real Story of Troy
In 1873 Heinrich Schliemann found a hoard of gold under a hill in western Anatolia, hid it from the Ottoman official assigned to watch him, packed it into his wife's luggage, and crossed the Aegean. The Ottoman Empire sued him in a Greek court — the first international lawsuit it ever brought to recover smuggled antiquities. He lost. Eight years later he donated the loot to Berlin. From there it travelled — through Hitler's flak tower, a Soviet transport plane to Moscow, and a Russian law passed in 1998 — to a basement at the Pushkin Museum, where it sits today.
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