[Ciexyz]

Thanks for the info on Michael Wood's book, In Search of the Trojan War. I have a number of his books, incl. In Search of the Dark Ages. His narratives are understandable (easy to follow) and compelling.

[SunkenCiv]

I've not seen all of his, but Wood's Trojan War is very well done. I particularly liked how gracious he was with that blowhard, James Mellaart, who doubletalked his way through. Mellaart complained that there was "literally one" reference in the Hittite library to the King of Akkiyawa (as if that were a coherent criticism anyway), while already having done this:

The Dorak Affair's Final Chapter
Opinion: Suzan Mazur
Monday, 10 October 2005

There were drawings of an ancient comb with a dolphin motif, of jewel boxes again decorated with dolphins, of a vase in the shape of a bird of gold and silver; there were sketches of the gold leaf covering which was said to have extended over the surface of the wooden throne which could have been a present from Egypt, details of the rug which had disintegrated when the tombs had been opened, and even rubbings of the sword blade etched with ships and of a sherd of alabaster which had been marked with hieroglyphics. And every one of these drawings had been annotated in Mellaart's hand... Earlier this week in phone conversations I had with David Stronach, Professor of Near East Archaeology at the University of California - Berkeley, Stronach disclosed that Jimmie Mellaart invented Dorak. He called it a "dream-like epsidode"... But most important of all in relation to the Dorak mystery, Stronach's was the other handwriting Pearson & Connor refer to above in Mellart's memoirs.