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Who assisted Heinrich Schliemann during his later excavations at Troy?
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Heinrich Schliemann
Heinrich Schliemann, detail of an engraving by A. Weger, after a photograph.
During his later excavations at Troy, Heinrich Schliemann was assisted by the German archaeologist and architect Wilhelm Dörpfeld.
Dörpfeld joined Schliemann at the site of Hisarlik between 1882 and 1890, providing expert assistance during Schliemann's final two seasons of work there. As a practical architect who had previously worked on German excavations at Olympia, Dörpfeld introduced a new level of systematic efficiency to the project. His expertise allowed for a clearer understanding of the site's stratigraphy, and together they successfully numbered the successive levels of occupation at Troy.12