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The Truth Behind the Trojan War

The Levels of Troy

Ancient Troy has ten settlement layers, creating a man-
made mound about 50 feet high

LEVEL I LEVEL II LEVEL III LEVEL IV/V LEVEL VI LEVEL VII-VIIB3 LEVEL VIII LEVEL IX LEVEL X
2920-2350 BCE 2550-2250 BCE 2250-2200 BCE 2200-1740 BCE 1740-1180 BCE 1180-950 BCE 700-85 BCE 85 BCE-500 CE 1100-1300
The earliest The so-called A smaller-scale Anatolian-Trojan Golden Age of Troy; Early-Iron-Age Greek city of Ilion. Roman city of Ilium. Byzantine Ilion
settlement, small ‘Burnt City’, rebuilt version of Level Culture introduced. the city reached Troy was rebuilt Refounded by Boosted under A small community.
but wealthy, the earlier level II with cultural Citadel expanded, its maximum on a smaller scale, Greeks after being Emperors Augustus Cause of
concentrated on on a larger scale continuity. economy shifts prosperity and mainly in the abandoned for 250 and Hadrian, who destruction:
the citadel, fortified with an impressive Cause of to hunting, more extent. It was upper city, with years. Ilion was saw Troy as the Ottoman
with gates. citadel wall. destruction: fire connections with probably Homer’s influence from the sacked by Romans. ancestral city of conquest
Cause of ‘Treasures of Priam’ central Turkey. Troy. Cause of Balkans. Cause Cause of Rome. Cause
destruction: found. Cause of Cause of destruction: fire, of destruction: destruction: of destruction:
rebuilding destruction: fire destruction: fire probably war abandonment Roman conquest earthquakes

The archeological Heinrich Schliemann’s
site of the ancient work lends weight to the
city of Troy idea that the story of the
Iliad is based in truth

Sophia Schliemann, wife
of Heinrich, wearing
ornaments found in the
excavation of Troy

The Burning of
Troy (1759/62), oil
painting by Johann
Georg Trautmann
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