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Multi-periodSite Name: Troy. Alternative Name: Ilium, Wilusa
Country: Turkey
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Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Çanakkale
Latitude: 39.956440N  Longitude: 26.239000E
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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : Sıte of Homer's Epıc. The aleged palace of Priam, whıch sıts on a stone foundatıon just lıke the town walls. The habitation itself would have been out of mud bricks. The walls were angled ınward to reduce stress durıng the frequent earthquakes in the region. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient City in Çanakkale Province, Turkey. Site of the Trojan war, as described in Homer's Iliad and excavated by Heinrich Schliemann.

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Note: Ancient city of Troy 'rebranded' itself after war
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Troy. submitted by DrewParsons : The Odeon at Troy in September 1999 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : Sıte of Homer's Epıc. The Fortificatıons of Troy that kept the Greeks at bay for 10 Years. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Troy. submitted by DrewParsons : The sloping, excavated walls of Troy VI. Photographed during a visit with a New Zealand school group to Gallipoli in 1999. I visited this site in 1963 also and slept on the museum floor on that occasion. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : Roman Era Monument to the fallen Heroes of Troy. There is also an earlier monument as well as 2 Holy Wells. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : Artıst's impressıon of what Troy must have looked lıke at the tıme of Homer's İlliad, ıncludıng the lower city. The orıgınal early Bronze Age Citadel was half the size. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : Sıte of Homer's Epıc. The South Gate. According to Legend, the Greeks came through the North Gate, but that one ıs not so well preserved.

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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : Sıte of Homer's Epıc. The Fortificatıons of Troy that kept the Greeks at bay for 10 Years.

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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : Humanoid stele from the earliest layer of Troy I, dating to between 3000 and 2500 BCE at the Istanbul museum. The museum also stated that there were menhirs dating from Troy V and VI (Trojan war era) at the site, but these were not visible at the time. (1 comment)

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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : Roman Era theatre at Troy.

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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : Sıte of Homer's Epıc. The Ramp from the lower city to the Citadel.

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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : Sıte of Homer's Epıc. The Fortificatıons of Troy that kept the Greeks at bay for 10 Years.

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Troy. submitted by AlexHunger : The Walls of Troy II, dating to about 2500 BCE, well before Homer's epic. They had stone foundations, but consisted largely of mud bricks. These were recent excavations that Schliemann hardly bothered with, though the treasure dated to this era. The Hittites, with whom the Trojans were allied, called the city 'Wilusa.'

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Discovery takes Troy’s history back 600 years by davidmorgan on Friday, 23 August 2019
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Archaeological excavations have been continuing in the ancient city of Troy, which has been demolished throughout the years during wars, fires and earthquakes in the northwestern province of Çanakkale.

Headed by Professor Rüstem Aslan, the excavations have revealed the remains of a new period in the ancient city, which is known to have 10 layers.

Stating that they found Troy-0, Aslan said that the discovery was a surprise for the world of archaeology and took the history of Troy back 600 years.

Source: Hürriyet
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Re: Discovery of Bronze-Age `Refrigerators' Expands Homer's Troy by Kustur on Tuesday, 09 January 2018
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Trojan Walls

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Re: Discovery of Bronze-Age `Refrigerators' Expands Homer's Troy by SpaceTravellor on Sunday, 20 January 2013
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If reading the contents here on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer#History and the Iliad and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War - it is unbelievable that anyone can state that Homers Troy deals with historical events on a specific gegraphic location on Earth.

Most deities belongs to the Sky and to the Milky Way and its mythology, but of course geographical locations have of temples of remembrance – ”all over the place” for the same deities.
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Ancient city of Troy rebranded itself after war by davidmorgan on Thursday, 03 January 2013
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Even ancient cities knew about rebranding. Troy was destroyed by war about 3200 years ago - an event that may have inspired Homer to write the Iliad, 400 years later. But the famous city rose again, reinventing itself to fit a new political landscape.

Troy lies in north-west Turkey and has been studied for decades. Pottery made before the war has a distinct Trojan style but after the war its style is typical of the Balkans. This led archaeologists to believe that the locals had been forced out and replaced by populations from overseas.

But when Peter Grave at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, and his colleagues examined the chemical make-up of the pottery, they realised that both pre and post-war objects contained clay from exactly the same local sources, suggesting the same people were making the pots.

"There is substantial evidence for cultural continuity," says Grave. So if the Trojans never left the city, why did their pottery style change?

Before the sack of Troy, the city looked east towards the powerful Hittite Empire. But this political powerhouse collapsed around the time that Troy was destroyed. Grave says the post-war pottery is Balkan in style because the Trojans were keen to align themselves with the people there, who had become the new political elite in the region (Journal of Archaeological Sciences, doi.org/js8).

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628964.200-ancient-city-of-troy-rebranded-itself-after-war.html

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Project Troia - Bronze Age Troy Just Keeps on Growing by davidmorgan on Friday, 08 October 2010
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From coldrum:

German archaeologists have made new discoveries at modern day Hisarlik, northwest Turkey – ancient Troy.

The finds further confirm the area occupied during the Bronze Age was not limited to the citadel; Troy VI and VII were much larger than originally thought.

The three year research project at Troy – lead by Prof. Ernst Pernicka, from the University of Tubingen's Institute of Pre- and Early History – sees scholars focus on the analysis and publication of materials found since the university started excavations at the site in 1988.

But to investigate – and resolve – outstanding issues, Project Troia does undertake some smaller excavations.

These digs, in combination with geophysical surveying and the drilling of test holes, allow the team to narrow down the Bronze Age occupation below Troy's citadel more closely.

From the early Bronze Age until the Roman Period, at least nine cities – their ruins stacked up to 15 metres high – existed at the archaeological site; Troy I to IX.

This year, the team confirmed the layout of a one kilometre long Late Bronze Age defensive system – a rock-cut ditch – south of the Troy hillfort.

A gate, situated in the southeast area of the trench, is now fully excavated. It is located some 300 metres south of the citadel wall, and dated to about 1300 BC. The passage is about five metres wide, smaller than the ditch's previously excavated southern gate.

Late Bronze Age layers came to light in the vicinity of the southeastern gate – remains of walls, roads, storage pits and even an ancient oven. The finds suggest the area was occupied from about about 1700 (Troy VI) to 1100 BC (Troy VII). Soil samples, taken 200 metres east of the citadel, reveal Bronze Age remains as well.

Further east, a second trench was discovered, significantly deeper and wider than the excavated ditch. This structure isn't dated yet, but will be further examined next season.

Map of the 2010 excavations by the University of Tubingen at Hisarlik, Turkey - ancient Troy.
Map of Late Bronze Age Troy, at Hisarlik, Turkey. It shows the excavations and test holes from the 2010 season. ( Burg/Citadel, Bohrungen/Drilling, Bronzezeit-Schicht/Bronze Age layer, Tor/Gate)

The archaeological site of Hisarlik was first excavated in the 19th century – not without controversy – by self-taught archaeologists Heinrich Schliemann.

Rather than being one ancient city, it consists of multiple layers of ruins. From the early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BC) until the Roman Period (1st century BC), at least nine cities – Troy I to IX – existed at the archaeological site; there ruins are stacked up to 15 metres high (nicely shown in the timeline on the University of Cincinnati's website).

Which of these remains – if any – are those of the Homeric city of Troy, is still debated.

Schliemann nominated Troy I or II, but nowadays the Late Hittite Troy VII – showing traces of fire and possibly warfare – is seen as the most likely source of inspiration for the Trojan myth. Its remains are dated between the 13th and 10th century BC, where as ancient Greek historians place the Trojan War somewhere in the 12th to 14th century BC.

That Troy VI and VII are far larger than originally thought – not a mere hillfort, but strongholds surrounded by a settlement with its own defensive structures – makes it more likely Hisarlik is indeed the site of the legendary Troy, or Ilion, the siege of which was described by Homer in the Iliad.

http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/project-troia-bronze-age-troy-just-keeps-growing
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Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple by coldrum on Wednesday, 07 October 2009
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Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday.

Ernst Pernicka, a University of Tubingen professor of archaeometry who is leading excavations on the site in northwestern Turkey, said the bodies were found near a defense line within the city built in the late Bronze age.

The discovery could add to evidence that Troy's lower area was bigger in the late Bronze Age than previously thought, changing scholars' perceptions about the city of the "Iliad."

"If the remains are confirmed to be from 1,200 B.C. it would coincide with the Trojan war period. These people were buried near a moat. We are conducting radiocarbon testing, but the finding is electrifying," Pernicka told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Ancient Troy, located in the northwest of modern-day Turkey at the mouth of the Dardanelles not far south of Istanbul, was unearthed in the 1870s by Heinrich Schliemann, the German entrepreneur and pioneering archaeologist who discovered the steep and windy city described by Homer.

Pernicka said pottery found near the bodies, which had their lower parts missing, was confirmed to be from 1,200 BC, but added the couple could have been buried 400 years later in a burial site in what archaeologists call Troy VI or Troy VII, different layers of ruins at Troy.

Tens of thousands of visitors flock every year to the ruins of Troy, where a huge replica of the famous wooden horse stands along with an array of excavated ruins.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE58L2A820090923?sp=true
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Discovery of Bronze-Age `Refrigerators' Expands Homer's Troy by bat400 on Monday, 08 December 2008
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The remains of two outsized earthenware pots, a ditch and evidence of a gate dating back more than 3,000 years are changing scholars' perceptions about the city of Troy at the time Homer's ``Iliad'' was set.

The discoveries this year show that Troy's lower town was much bigger in the late Bronze Age than previously thought, according to Ernst Pernicka, the University of Tubingen professor leading excavations on the site in northwestern Turkey.

His team has uncovered a trench 1.4 kilometers long, 4 meters wide and 2 meters deep. The full length of the trench, which probably encircled the city and served a defensive purpose, may be as much as 2.5 kilometers, Pernicka said in an interview in his office in Mannheim, Germany. Troy may have been as big as 40 hectares, with a population as high as 10,000, he estimates.

``Troy was not the center of the world, but it was a regional hub,'' Pernicka said. ``This year, we established that the trench continues around the town. We've found a southern gate, a southeastern gate, traces of a southwestern gate and I expect to find an eastern gate. So we have evidence of town planning.''

The discovery of the trench around the lower town vindicates Pernicka's predecessor, Manfred Korfmann, who faced accusations from a fellow German scholar that he was misleading the public in his interpretation of the ditch, which might have been for drainage. After Korfmann died in 2005, Pernicka took over his work and aims to publish the results of 20 years of digging and research.

``I think we have proven that the trench was not for drainage,'' Pernicka said.

Layers of Building

Excavating Troy is a challenge because the city was destroyed and rebuilt 10 times. Archaeologists have to sift through layers of Byzantine, Roman and Greek building to get to Troy VI and VIIa, the era in which the action in Homer's Trojan war epic is most likely to have been set, between 1500 and 1180 B.C.

Parts of two ceramic ``pithoi,'' or pitchers, were found in the trench near the edge of the town. The pots, which could be as much as 2 meters tall, were kept in or near homes, suggesting that houses in the lower town stretched to the trench, another indication that Troy's lower town was fully inhabited and the city was bigger than revealed in previous expeditions, Pernicka said.

``You can call them Bronze-Age refrigerators,'' he said. ``They were used for storing water, oil or maybe grain.''

Troy's wealth -- first discovered by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann -- probably came from agriculture and horse breeding, Pernicka said. Hittite texts call the city Wilusa and describe it as a vassal state to the Hittite empire.

Trojan War?

Pernicka sees no reason to question that the site in the western Anatolia region of Turkey is the setting for the ``Iliad,'' as a small minority of scholars still do. Homer described the topography, identifying rivers and islands that are visible today. Yet though there is evidence of conflicts, no archaeologist can prove that the Trojan War took place, he said.

``The Iliad speaks of a 10-year war,'' Pernicka said. ``That could be a metaphor. It could be that events that took place over decades were squeezed together.''

What archaeology has shown is that Troy's golden era ended in 1180. Where preceding Trojans had used potters' wheels for about 1,000 years, ceramics found on the site show the technology was lost with the arrival of a new people, probably from the Balkans, who reverted to hand-made pots. The newcomers also built their houses in a completely different style.

Regional Decline

``Many other towns in the eastern Mediterranean declined at this time,'' Pernicka said. ``It could have been a kind of world war at the end of the Bronze Age.''

The findings of the latest Troy excavations form part of an exhibition at Mannheim's Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum, called ``Home

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