I have often wondered if archeologists have excavated
the ancient river beds that Homer so often described
as being choked with the bodies of the fallen.
Certainly their armor would not all have been recovered so perhaps the ancient stream beds would prove
a fruitful source of artifacts.
Good idea. The Xanthus or Xanthos is the modern Scamander, but it is bound to have shifted. Ground-penetrating radar and such could be used.
There were large burial mounds made as a consequence of the war, visible in antiquity.
The harbor used by the Greeks had long since silted up, but has been identified in modern times.
Book XXI:
https://home.ubalt.edu/ntygfit/ai_01_pursuing_fame/ai_01_tell/iliad21.htm
Rivers in the Iliad:
https://mythagora.com/bios/rivers.html