[SunkenCiv]

Professor Schliemann had already begun to suspect that the stories of the Trojan War were limned upon an Atlantean background. While excavating in Troy he had found, in the treasure house of Priam, an exquisitely wrought bronze vase bearing the inscription: From King Chronos [no relation] of Atlantis. Ten years later, while wandering through the Louvre in Paris, he came across its mate, which had come to light in Tiahuanaca, on the South American continent. If, before he died in 1890, this intuitive man had been fortunate enough to read Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine, he might have learned that the Trojan War coincided with the cycle of events described in the Mahabharata, and that Homer's Iliad was but a copy of the Ramayana.

But seriously... I don't see it. While I don't reject the idea that the Mahabharata records (in its way) a real war of some duration, it was geographically and temporally in a very different place. The Trojan War has had its setting changed by different modern writers, including Edo Nyland's (borrowed) idea that it took place in the Scottish archipelago.

[Cronos]

I dunnno -- both epics were written down centuries, maybe millenia after they actually occured. The geographical location could have REALLY been anywhere and the combatants anyone. Just an epic battle -- the strange similarities