The self-made Schliemann was the one who started in all. In 1871, he was the one, due to his successful business ventures, who was able to take a leap of faith and start digging at the Turkish site of Hissarlik - believing it to be Troy. Though there have been rumors that his methods were in that infamous "gray area," it sounds like, from reading the article, that none of these rumors have been entirely proven. The article also mentions that the German excavator was interested in the site of Knossos on Crete but was unable, for unstated reasons, to purchase the land.
Nonetheless, Arthur Evans was able to. (Was it because his dad was a "renowned British naturalist?") Upon obtaining the land, Evans paid special attention to the technique of stratigraphy - the supposed reason behind his positive reputation. However, he also performed a "considerable amount of reconstruction" (using concrete, not mud brick or rubble masonry like the Minoans utilized originally) causing much of what a visitor sees at Knossos to be far from authentic and potentially entirely inaccurate.
I feel that, in the end, Arthur Evans's vast "remodeling" will prove to be much more destructive than anything done by Heinrich Schliemann.
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