Treasure Seekers: Glories of the Ancient Aegean (2001)

Homer's tale of the great walled city of Troy was, by the 19th century, thought of as fiction. But one man, a German industrialist, followed the clues in Homer's work and uncovered the ruins of Troy and Mycenae, complete wutg fabulous treasures. A generation later, an Englishman makes a spectacular discovery of the ancient palace of Knossos on the island of Crete.