Hissarlik

An extensive hill, called Hisarlik (or Hissarlik) by the Turks, had for some time been known not the remains of a city named Ilion that had thrived in Hellenistic and Roman times.

Even Schliemann's first excavations at Hissarlik in the Troad did not excite surprise.

Schliemann got to work again at Hissarlik in 1878, and greatly increased our knowledge of the lower strata, but did not recognize the Aegean remains in his "Lydian" city of the sixth stratum.

These were not to be fully revealed until Dr. Wilhelm Dorpfeld, who had become Schliemann's assistant in 1879, resumed the work at Hissarlik in 1892 after the first explorer's death.