Project Troia -- Bronze Age Troy Just Keeps on Growing

Heritage Key ^ | Monday, October 4, 2010 | Ann Wuyts

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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... smaller excavations... 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... 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.

• timeline on the University of Cincinnati's website

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[bigheadfred]

If one were to take Homer at his word, sending 100,000+ troops to a Troy of a few goatherders and migrant olive pickers wouldn’t make sense. Wouldn’t have been any need for an epic like the Iliad. A quick sound bite on the late news about a smash and grab on the corner of Grape and Vine would’ve covered it.

[yarddog]

Troy and the Trojan War have always interested me.

It seems that the more they find out, the closer the Iliad was to the truth, not that I think it was totally accurate since a lot of it talks about Gods and Goddesses fighting on one side or the other.

[1010RD]

Excellent and amazing, no? The more time we spend on a site the grander our view of the ancients becomes.

We really do live in a world of lost knowledge.

[SunkenCiv]

keywords: Trojan War, Troy, Iliad, Odyssey, Homer (chrono sort newest to oldest):

• Ancient Greek town from where ships were launched for Troy unearthed
• Has the Sarcophagus of Paris, Prince of Troy, Been Found?
• Ancient Chronography, Eratosthenes and the Dating of the Fall of Troy [abstract]
• Diggers discover Phoenician army complex in Cyprus [ Trojan War connection ]
• Could museum's gold be from ancient Troy?
• Excavations in Ancient Tegea
• Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple
• Archaeology meets mythology in Mycenean Pylos (King Nestor)
• Trojan arrows and unique seals from Perperikon stand out in archaeological summer '08
• 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' are giving up new secrets about the ancient world
• Defences at Troy reveal larger town [ news finally reaches UK ]
• Ancient Eclipse Found in "The Odyssey," Scientists Say
• Sick Rams Used As Ancient Bioweapons
• Pagans upset over 180-ft. Homer
• Troy Story [The Straight Dope]
• Treasure Stock Rockets up 80% On New Find
• 2,700-Year-Old Fabric Found in Greece
• Mycenaean and Hittite Diplomatic Correspondence: Fact and Fiction [ PDF file ]
• Classical Treasures, Bathed in a New Light [ Met Museum, NYC, Roman and Greek classics ]
• Engineers To Help Find Homer's Itacha
• Lessons Of 'The 300'
• Drill hole begins Homeric quest
• Schliemann's search for the 'first city'
• Archaeologists Seek Hints On 4,000-Year-Old (Thracian) Civilization In Tekirda›
• An epic battle on Homer's gender
• Virgil's Demi-God City 'Found'
• Palace Of Homer's Hero Rises Out Of Myths
• Ancient coffin with scenes from Homer's poems unearthed in Cyprus
• Helen Of Troy Existed?
• Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
• Archeologists make historic discovery (Tomb of Odysseus)
• Bulgarian Archaeologists Uncover Treasure Of Thousands Of Golden Ornaments
• Unlocking the Power of Myth
• Kernave: Lithuania's 'Troy' to celebrate UNESCO heritage site listing
• Russian Culture Official Suggests Legendary Gold Collection From Troy Unlikely be Returned Germany
• In Search of the Real Troy
• People Don't Write That Way Anymore [Freeper-run magazine article]
• NYT: Big Films, but a Year of Smaller Audiences
• Let's not read too much into the fate of 'Alexander' (Hilarious Movie Review!)
• Arzawa
• Laocoön and His Son
• Cyclops Myth Spurred by "One-Eyed" Fossils?
• Ireland Is Lost Island of Atlantis, Says Scientist
• Was There a Trojan War?
• 50 Ancient Tombs Uncovered (1400BC, Crete)
• The Iliad and Islam
• Troy the Movie
• Ties between Hollywood and Teachers? (Vanity)
• Trojan Bore (REVIEW: Troy devoid of any notion of honor, destiny, gods, or reason to see it)
• Boycott Brad Pitt In the movie "Troy"!
• Director compares 'Troy' to Iraq war
• Let's hope 'Troy' doesn't put men in skirts
• Pitt Says Men May Start Wearing Skirts After 'Troy'
• Victor Davis Hanson: The Ancient Greeks - Were they like us at all?
• The Truth About An Epic Tale Of Love, War And Greed (Troy)
• Movies Worth Seeing
• Scientists Say Warfare Began After People Formed Villages
• Geologists investigate Trojan battlefield
• Geologists Show Homer Got It Right
• Was Troy a Metropolis? Homer Isn't Talking
• Who Killed Homer?
• Evidence for Major Impact Events in the late Third Millennium BC
• Recent Finds Prove That Homer's Stories Were More Than Myth
• So Who Is Buried in Midas's Tomb?

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No surprise that it took ten years to subdue.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Sailing into the Dardanelles in those days had to be like running a gauntlet from one pirate’s nest to the next. Troy was the first...or the last if you were heading out. Stands to reason a bunch of enterprising “tollkeepers” would set up shop there and be so gloriously successful, they’d eventually have themselves a city state.
You want to do business with the exotic trader cities on the Black Sea, you best pay da man. Both ways!
Sometimes enforcing this rule takes a navy.
Next thing you know, some Achaean ruffian who doesn’t understand how business operates, is getting bent out of shape and calling for war.
Troy had better press than the Barbary pirates, but pirates they were.
It’s ok. Many dynasties start with bandits, bootleggers, smugglers, vandals...or pirates.

[colorado tanker]

Who killed Homer

[SunkenCiv]

I don’t watch the Simpsons, but it seems like a send-up of that atrocious Brad Pitt movie would have made sense.

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