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In his epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Greek poet Homer (c. 750 BCE) told the story of the Trojan War, a ten-year siege of the city of Troy by an alliance of Greek city-states. Troy was also known by its Latinised name of Ilium...

German pioneer archaeologist Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (1822-1890), whose excavations revealed what is universally accepted to be the site of Troy in what is now Hisarlik in modern-day Turkey. Photo taken by Ed. Schultze Hofphotograph...

Heinrich Bullinger (l. 1504-1575) was a Swiss reformer, minister, and historian who succeeded Huldrych Zwingli (l. 1484-1531) as leader of the Reformed Church in Switzerland and became the theological bridge between Zwingli's work and that...

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the head of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) organisation. One of the most powerful individuals in Nazi Germany, Himmler built up the SS from a small paramilitary unit to a vast organisation, which included armoured...

German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) and his second wife Sophia Schliemann (1852-1930) during a trip to Germany in 1883.

Greece, the 'cradle of western civilization', is home to a large number of spectacular sites from the ancient world, several of which have been placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. These sites of great historical importance, interest...

Schliemann's Trench at Hisarlik, the site of ancient Troy, near Tevfikiye, modern-day Turkey. The 40-metre (131 ft) wide, 17-metre (55 ft) deep trench was laid out N-S across the middle of the mound or tell at TroyHeinrich Schliemann from...

Sophia Schliemann (1852-1932), born Sophia Engastromenou in Athens, Greece, wearing Priam's Treasure (1873). Sophia was the second wife of the German archaeologist Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (1822-1890), famous for his discovery...

Troy is the name of the Bronze Age city attacked in the Trojan War, a popular story in the mythology of ancient Greece, and the name given to the archaeological site in the north-west of Asia Minor (now Turkey) which has revealed a large...

A 1938 photograph of Heinrich Himmler (1900-45), leader of the SS (Schutzstaffel), the Nazi paramilitary group which evolved into a vast military organisation. (German Federal Archives)