"No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers"

Heinrich Schliemann was a German business person and amateur archaeologist who is most famous for his discovery of the site of Troy. In this quote, Schliemann is making a distinction in between the work of archaeologists and the work of historians. He states that the customary aim of research study by excavators is entirely foreign to the historic work he is occupied with. This suggests that Schliemann was not thinking about the artifacts and objects that archaeologists normally discover, but rather in the historical truths that could be developed from them. He mentions that his sole and just goal is to be able to establish a historic truth, which he disagrees with some distinguished historians and geographers. This recommends that Schliemann was more thinking about the historical implications of his discoveries than in the artifacts themselves. He was wanting to show or disprove the theories of distinguished historians and geographers, and was not simply aiming to discover artifacts.