Troy
Troy (mod. Hisarlık)(see map: Greece and the Aegean world) lies in NW Asia Minor, about 6½ km. (4 mi.) from the Aegean coast and rather less from the Hellespont. The site consists of a small citadel mound with c.25 m. of gradually accumulated debris from human habitation, and a lower town at least 1 km. square. It was first identified as Troy by Charles Maclaren in 1820. After initial soundings by Frank Calvert in 1863 and 1865, much of the mound was excavated by H. Schliemann between 1870 and 1890. After his death digging by W. Dörpfeld in 1893 and 1894 and by the University of Cincinnati from 1932 to 1938 greatly supplemented what had previously been learned; and further illumination is expected from new excavations by an international team under M. Korfmann, begun in 1988. The site was occupied from c.3000 BC to c. AD 1200, perhaps with some intervals, and has revealed...
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