[texas booster]

I've been looking for an updated version of the book In Search of the Trojan War.

Looks like the last Michael Wood publication is from 1998.

Can anyone recommend a newer book about the Trojan War that leaves out the silly New Age archeology treatment?

[SunkenCiv]

Not sure what there is new out there, or what to you would constitute New Age archaeology, but we do have a fine selection of topics that may help in your search, these are also posted up there somewhere, but are a bit better organized here. The very newest findings of the ongoing Troy dig haven't perked into the popular lit yet, AFAIK.

• Project Troia -- Bronze Age Troy Just Keeps on Growing [2010]
  • Defences at Troy reveal larger town [ news finally reaches UK ] [2008]
  • In Search of the Real Troy [2005]
  • Geologists investigate Trojan battlefield [2003]
  • Geologists Show Homer Got It Right [2003]
  • Was Troy a Metropolis? Homer Isn't Talking [2002]
  • Recent Finds Prove That Homer's Stories Were More Than Myth [2002]
• Ancient Greek palace unearthed near Sparta dates back to 17th century BC [2015]
  • Archaeologists making exciting discoveries in Laconia [2015]
  • Throne of Homer's hero is unearthed [2016]
• Greece. They found the palace belonging to one of the Heroes of the Iliad? [Egyptian artifact, 2006] [2010]
  • Greek Archaeologists Claim They Discovered Odysseus' Palace [2010]
  • Engineers To Help Find Homer's Itacha [2007]
  • Drill hole begins Homeric quest [2006]
  • Odyssey's End? The Search for Ancient Ithaca [2006]
  • Search Locates Homer's Ithaca [2005]
  • Archeologists make historic discovery (Tomb of Odysseus) [2005]
• Ancient Eclipse Found in "The Odyssey," Scientists Say [2008]
  • Scientists calculate the exact date of the Trojan horse using eclipse in Homer [2008]
  • Is an Eclipse Described in the Odyssey (and does it date the return of Odysseus to Penelope) [2011]
• Mycenaean and Hittite Diplomatic Correspondence: Fact and Fiction [ PDF file ] [2007]
  • Troy Story [The Straight Dope] [2007]
  • Arzawa [2004]
• Archaeology meets mythology in Mycenean Pylos (King Nestor) [2009]
• Ancient Tomb Found On Greek Island [2008]
• Archaeologist Links Ancient Palace, Ajax [2006]
• Palace Of Homer's Hero Rises Out Of Myths [2006]
• Dig Unearths Mycenaean 'Homeric Capital' [2002]