Archaeological Site of Troy
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| troy jpg[459×296] TROY I 3000 2500 B C The first inhabitants of Troy built their houses on a 16 m high indigenous rock at the western end of the ridge The city was fortified by a wall made of rough stones Today we Publishing origin | |
| troy section 1 jpg[532×191] since it was already known all over Anatolia and can be seen even today on the walls of some Turkish houses We can also see the same design very often in the ceramics of Troy I We do not know much about the building technique but we think the fish bone designs on their ceramics show us that the artisans might well be influenced by their daily life Publishing origin | |
| troy plan 1 s jpg[250×189] Troy I which had ten building phases was eventually wiped out by a great fire TROY II 2500 2300 B C The second settlement at Hisarlık was built on top of the ruins of Troy I It seems that the inhabitants of Troy I completely reconstructed the citadel after the disaster There is Publishing origin | |
| w849 jpg[222×320] The Archaeological Site of Troy is the traditional location of Homeric Troy In the 1870s Heinrich Schliemann excavated the area Later excavations revealed several cities built in Publishing origin | |
| troy05 jpg[410×576] excavation Between 1932 and 1938 new excavations were carried on at the site by the University of Cincinnati under the direction of the American archaeologist Carl Blegen On the mound of Hissarlik the following successive settlements have been determined Troy I an early settlement with a wall built of small stones and clay its date being Publishing origin | |
| troy03 jpg[410×576] when Hercules captured the city It was during the reign of Laomedon s son Priam that the famous Trojan War occurred which resulted in the capture and destruction of the city one of the Schliemann excavations The Troy that appears in the Homeric poems was long regarded as a purely legendary city but in 1870 the German archaeologist Heinrich Publishing origin | |
| troy08 jpg[447×576] new excavations current excavation Publishing origin | |
| troy06 jpg[576×410] acropolis of the Greco Roman city of Ilion or New Ilion with a temple of Athena public buildings and a large theater and existing from the 1st century BC to about AD 500 early stonework Schliemann discovered the first five settlements and identified Troy II with the Homeric Troy Dörpfeld s discoveries confirmed by Blegen proved that the Publishing origin | |
| troy07 jpg[706×503] by Blegen proved that the Homeric Troy must be identified with Troy VIIA which was destroyed by fire about the traditional date of the Trojan War Text from Microsoft Encarta new excavations Publishing origin |
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