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Defences at Troy reveal larger town

1 posted on 09/19/2008 7:36:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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see, I was sort of kidding (not entirely) about that:

Recent Finds Prove That Homer’s Stories Were More Than Myth
The Times (UK) | 2-25-2002 | Norman Hammond
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2 posted on 09/19/2008 7:37:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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3 posted on 09/19/2008 7:38:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv
probably backed by a now-vanished rampart

Probably destroyed by Heinrich Schliemann, the discoverer of Troy, who excavated right through Homer's Troy to an older, grander version of the city which he mistook for the famous Troy, as I understand it.

5 posted on 09/19/2008 10:47:45 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (White Trash for Sarah!)
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