Day Seven Revisit Part 2 - Saturday June 12 - Troy
After lunch and the ferry across the Dardanelles, we traveled for another hour or so, stopping at the ancient city of Troy, legendary from the stories of Homer of the Illiad and the Oddessey - the idea of a 10 year battle between the Greeks and the Persians, over a woman named Helen, ending when the Greeks left a wooden horse and the Persians took it into their city. In the 1930's a German by the name of Schliemann was looking for Troy and found this Tel in the right place. He hired some Turkish workers and started excavating, and he found something. Schliemann was not the most careful archeologist, and what he discovered they later found to be the ruins of Troy II from 2500 BC. The city of Troy that Homer wrote about would have been Troy VI around 500 BC. In all, they have found nine distinct Troys, with some subdivisions within each one.
We got another couple of group pictures at the Odeon at Troy.
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Dale's Pics for Day 7 - Troy: here
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| FootSteps of Paul (FSoP) group at Troy |
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