Gold earrings from the Treasure of Troy, also known as Priam’s Treasure, that the Greek government refused to accept from archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. Photo credit: Sailko Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 It was 1874 when the Greek prime minister and the minister of ecclesiastical affairs and public education stood before parliament and declared that Greece would refuse to accept the priceless Treasure of Troy, discovered by German-American …