On 26th December 1890 Heinrich Schliemann, a German businessman and archaeologist, died in Pompeii of a problem with his ear.

Schliemann is most famous for discovering the ruins of Hissarlik in modern day Turkey, presumed to be Troy. Schliemann believed that the places mentioned in Homer's works, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were actual places, and used them to determine the location of Troy.

There is a rather different theory that places Troy in a completely different place - in Cambridgeshire, England. That theory has the war being between Celtic nations for control of the Cornish tin mines.

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