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Pro
Good for about a 2-3 hour visit; a few miles from Canakkale
Con
The heat and .... FEW remains...
In a nutshell
Visit for the range of material, not because it's "Troy"
Willettsworld Says: This is the South Gate of Troy VI that was probably the principal entrance to the citadel. Of the gate, only the roadway survives today. It led in a straight line up into the citadel and was entirely paved with stone slabs. In the middle of the road a drainage channel,...
Willettsworld Says: The Roman Odeon was intended for the presentation of musical performances. Visible behind it are the Troy VI fortification walls and a pillar which belongs to a large house, the “Pillar House” of the Troy VI period.The Odeon, the baths and the nearby Bouleterion lie at the...
Willettsworld Says: This is the lower city, to the west of Troy VI-late VIIa citadel (14th-13th century BC). Stone foundations of well built houses are clearly visible; they are very close to one another. The houses flank the street leading to the citadel.The almost complete foundation walls of...
Willettsworld Says: The sanctuary was, perhaps, founded as early as the first quarter of the seventh century BC. It was dug into the ruins of the lower town of Troy VI and VII and these Archaic remains seem to have included altars, walled precincts and large buildings, perhaps temples. Best...
Willettsworld Says: This building stood on the lowest terrace of the great citadel mound and formed part of the Troy VI palace complex. The ceramic finds of this period display not only an advanced, independent style, but also a taste for Mycenaean imports. Immediately noticeable are four...
Willettsworld Says: Part of the fortification wall contains the partially restored ramp of the Troy II citadel. Troy II was built on top of the remains of Troy Ia-Ie (i.e. Early and Middle Troy I) and is subdivided into eight building-phases, IIa-IIh.During this period the circuit-wall was...
Willettsworld Says: One of the best sites to see the different layers of Troy settlements (of which there are a total of nine), is close to the Ramp. Each layer has been clearly marked to give some idea as to how and when each was built.
Willettsworld Says: During the first three years of excavation, Schliemann had a deep north-south trench, 40 metres wide and seventeen deep, dug through the centre of the mound. It was conceived as a test-trench, reaching down to bedrock, by means of which Schliemann hoped to find “Priam’s...
Willettsworld Says: This is a section of the fortifications of Early and Middle Troy I, together with a tower. The gateway was only two meters wide. Troy I was built around 2920 BC directly on bedrock.Archaeological deposits four metres deep suggest a long period of occupation. The slightly...
Willettsworld Says: This Megaron (building with a porch) of mud brick was built directly inside the Citadel Wall. The Megaron was found with its walls still standing to a height of over 1.5 metres. Radiocarbon dating of barley corns found in the building show that it ceased being used between...
Willettsworld Says: These are the remains of the foundations of an altar which belonged to the Greek and Roman temple of Athena. The remains of this temple had already been removed by stone-robbers when Schliemann began his excavations in 1871. Other limestone foundations were discovered at the...
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A small café is located in Tevfikiye – 600 meters from the famous wooden horse. You can have a short rest there and buy a cap of wonderful Turkish tea for 2 YTL ($1,5).
There are a lot of souvenir shops nearby and the Schliman's house.
Updated Mar 18, 2009
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: Troy (in Turkish Truva,or Troia) is located 30 km south to Çanakkale at the mound ‘Hisarlik’ on the east side of the river Scamander, where the Dardanelles strait join with the Agean Sea.You can get there by dolmush which is going to Tefvikiye from the bridge on Ataturk Cad...
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What does this dog dream about? May be he sees heroes of the Trojan War?
King Priam and his sons Hector and Paris?
King Agamemnon and his Greek heroes Achilles and Ajax?
King Menelaus and his wife Helen?
Or may be Odysseus in his Trojan Horse?
Haven't he seen Troy movie?
Or may be he sees Heinrich Schliemann digging in and digging out his treasures, haha?
Updated Mar 18, 2009
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: Locals want to attract tourists by all means. A small village Tevfikiye is located in 600 meters from the site. You can find there what they call the Schliemann’s House. I know that Schliemann never lived there. Nevertheless tourists usually enter it (free of charge) and...
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Miscellaneous: If you are interested in New Chronology - a theory which considers that Homeric Troy located in Constantinople and the Trojan War being held in early Middle Ages please try to read the following works of the prominent Russian scientist Anatoly Fomenko (English versions):
video Homer's "Iliad" tells the tale of the First Crusade?,
or website History: Fiction or Science?,
Or History: Fiction or Science? Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs. Chronology Vol.I (Paperback),
Or History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2 (Paperback),
Or History: Fiction or Science? Astronomical methods as applied to chronology. Ptolemy's Almagest. Chronology III (Perfect Paperback),
Or Empirico-statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and Its Applications to Historical Dating: Volume I: The Development of the Statistical Tools Volume II: The Analysis of Ancient and Medieval Records,
or A.T.Fomenko, G.V.Nosovskij. New chronology and new concept of the English history. British Empire as a direct successor of Byzantine-roman empire
Official web site Chronologia (in Russian). For my Russian speaking VT-friends I suggest to have a look here.
Updated Mar 18, 2009
DSwede Says: Honestly, Troy (Truva) did not impress me that much. Assos, on the other hand was a new name to me, so I had no expectations. I was pleasantly surprised to see some old Greek ruins on top of a peak, overlooking the sea, with Turkish and Greek islands a stone's throw away...
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: Priam's Treasure was on display for a time at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. It remained there until 1945, when it disappeared from a protective bunker.In fact, the treasure had been removed to the Soviet Union by the Red Army. During the Cold War, the government of the...
Willettsworld Says: After buying your ticket and visiting the reconstruction of the famous Trojan Horse, you'll come to get a first glimpse of how complex this area is, with layer upon layer of building on the ruins of an earlier city. Altogether, there were a total of 9 Troy settlements and...
Kuznetsov_Sergey Says: Only a small minority of scientists argued that Homeric Troy was not in Anatolia. They placed it elsewhere: in Italy, England, Croatia, Scandinavia etc. But these theories have not been accepted by mainstream scholars. I belong to those sceptics who don’t think that Hisarlik...
You will see this giant map of Troia with the hearty welcome just after you leave your car or a bus. Troy as a legendary city and centre of the Trojan War attracts a lot of tourists from all over the...
Troy is not your average, restored ancient site!
Pulling up to Troy is kind of an anti-climactic experience. For someone who has seen Rome or Pompeii or other restored Greek and Roman sites, Troy just doesn’t compare. It is still a mound of rubble...
Troy was located at the entrance of the Dardanelos straight, the entrance gate to the Black Sea, and a major commercial route. Through this water way came most of the cereals consumed in Europe by the...
Legendary Troy proved to be fact when, in the 1870s, a wealthy German businessman, Heinrich Schliemann, began excavating in this area. He discovered the ruins of a series of ancient cities dating from...
Even though I was nursing the worst flu that I can remember having, I did suck it up on Easter Sunday and got in the car with two other friends for the better part of a whole day and visited the...
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