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TROY EXCAVATIONS
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Troy
Homer was the one who wrote the story of the
Trojan War.
Heinrich Schliemann was the one who found the city of Troy.
Manfred Korman, director of
excavations at Troy and a professor of archaeology at the University
of Tübingen comments:
As current director of
the excavations, I am continually asked if Homer's Trojan War really
happened. [...]
According to the archaeological and historical
findings of the past decade especially, it is now more likely than
not that there were several armed conflicts in and around Troy at
the end of the Late Bronze Age. At present we do not know whether
all or some of these conflicts were distilled in later memory into
the "Trojan War" or whether among them there was an especially
memorable, single "Trojan War."
However, everything currently
suggests that Homer should be taken seriously, that his story of a
military conflict between Greeks and the inhabitants of Troy is
based on a memory of historical events--whatever these may have
been.
If someone came up to me at the excavation one day and
expressed his or her belief that the Trojan War did indeed happen
here, my response as an archaeologist working at Troy would be: Why
not?
There you have it.
And here is a map of ancient Troy:
TROY
Click to enlarge
See also:
About the Ancient Greeks - The Trojan
War
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