What was Priam’s Treasure and where was it discovered?

Priam’s Treasure is a significant collection of gold jewelry, ornaments, and vessels made of gold, silver, copper, and bronze. The hoard includes elaborate diadems, bracelets, thousands of beads, and various vessels, such as a large silver cup used to pack many of the items.12

The treasure was discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in the debris of the "burnt layer" of Troy II at the archaeological site of Hisarlik in modern-day Turkey. Although Schliemann mistakenly identified this layer as the Troy described in Homer’s Iliad, the artifacts date to the Early Bronze Age, long before the period associated with the Trojan War.312