>> What do I know about Troy?
>> That Brad Pitt was the worst Achilles, ever.
>> The movie or the site?
>> The site.
>> The site, I don't know anything about the site.
>> I've never been there.
>> [LAUGH] >> Love to go someday.
>> Wait, isn't there a team, a football team, called the Trojans?
>> [LAUGH] I think there a million of them out there.
>> Oh, yeah, okay.
>> And a few soccer teams, and a few other-
>> A baseball team.
>> [LAUGH] >> Heinrich Schliemann went out with his
copy of Homer, and basically dug a huge trench.
And managed to find the city, but destroyed a lot in the process.
>> In 1822 a Scottish newspaper writer, and topographer named
Charles Maclaren, wrote a book, The Plain Of Troy Described:.
Claiming Troy existed, and was located under a mound known as Hissarlik.
But Maclaren was an armchair archaeologist and never really excavated.
In 1847, young Frank Calvert, a British teenager whose
family owned land in the Hissarlik area, dug in the mound.
And became convinced that the Mound of Hissarlik was really ancient Troy.
But the family had little money to dig on a large scale.