After Troy VI is destroyed, the city is once again rebuilt (Troy VII). Two more will succeed it in Hisarlik. 8th century B.C. Homer composes The Iliad and The Odyssey .

Told of a possible location for the city, at Hisarlik on the west coast of modern Turkey, ... Most historians now agree that ancient Troy was to be found at Hisarlik. Troy was real.

The hill of Hisarlik has been built upon, erased, and built upon again in a continuous cycle that lasted millennia. Therefore we cannot accurately speak of Troy as one single city.

Schliemann, armed with others’ research, decided that Hisarlik was Troy and staged his excavation there, ploughing through several layers of remains to find, most famously, a silver and gold ...

His methods, note Jill Rubalcaba and Eric H. Cline in Digging for Troy: From Homer to Hisarlik, were “savage and brutal,” even by the standards of the 19th century.

Schliemann believed that the Troy ruled over by King Priam, as in the Iliad, would be found at the deepest layer of the city, and so, beginning in 1870, he aimed for the base of Hisarlik’s mound.

In the late Bronze Age, Troy, if located at the Hisarlik site, would have been a great prize for power-hungry kings. Perched at the entrance to the Black Sea, ...

What experts know for certain is that Troy was likely a Bronze Age city located at a site called Hisarlik in what is now ...

Archaeologists at Troy have unearthed more than 100 depas goblets dated to between 2500 and 2000 B.C.E. They tend to measure between 5 and 15 inches tall and can contain up to a liter of liquid ...

The hill of Hisarlik has been built upon, erased, and built upon again in a continuous cycle that lasted millennia. Therefore we cannot accurately speak of Troy as one single city.