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Article: THE TROJAN WAR: IS THERE TRUTH BEHIND THE LEGEND?
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- Near Eastern Archaeology
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- September 1, 2002
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Could this really have been the mighty citadel of Homeric epic? First-time visitors to Hisarlik who are unprepared for the experience may well be disappointed by what they see. Romantic visions of an imposing fortress towering above the surrounding plains must be set aside. Today the low-lying mo
und of Hisarhk, located near the Dardanelles in northwest Turkey and reputedly the site of Troy, is barely distinguishable from its surrounds. The citadel covers an area not much larger than a football field (it is about 200 meters in diameter) and presents to the modem traveler a confusion of broken pavements, building foundations, and superimposed, crisscrossing fragments of walls. Today ...
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