The Tell at Troy

My name is Bryan Finken. I am 59 years old with a PhD in philosophy. I am not an archaeologist, not even an amateur one. I haven't read Homer since high school. And I was laid off on 12/1.  But I accidentally found a great lower city at Troy on 12/4.  

The tell is around a mile wide and nearing 2 miles long.  

When I spotted this, it was late at night.  I was a little shaken.  I felt like I had found something very solemn like a grave, but alive too, like people, and that only I knew the situation, and that I had to help.  I stared at it for a long time.  I feel a sense of duty to those people.  

I must inform the world, there is a tell at Troy.  

I encourage you to go on Google Earth and look for yourself at the tell.  As you can see from the pictures, it is quite large.  It is also right where it should be.  Right in front of the citadel.  

I figure it has gone unnoticed because it is so large.  The site on Hisarlik has been worked for 150 years by archaeologists. The very best, people whose lectures I would pay good money to attend, have toiled there all day in the dirt, and none of them saw this.  It is so large, it would be hard to see it as a mound from Hisarlik.  

A larger city of Troy in the plain changes many things about the discussion of the ancient city, the Trojan war and Homer. The tale we have been fed for 150 years about "little Troy" being the only one (citadel means little city) is wholly false.  It was based merely on the fact that nobody knew where the big city was.  Well, now we know.  The elites ruling this valley were not mere pirates.  They ruled a huge, thriving city at some time.  One with water entering and leaving it.  

The existence of a bigger city in the plain is a new and very pregnant fact that has just entered history.  It is a new challenge for archaeology.  As a mere philosopher I can only do what I can do. 

We need scientists to study the plain of Troy.  The whole thing, they should study the whole plain. 

Regardless of what they do, however, the mound is there, it's real and it shows us that the fabled city of Troy was real as well.  It actually existed.  The richest city in Asia, a city worth sacking, etc.  There was a great city, not just a little fortress town.  

The real city of Troy consisted of a citadel, a large city in the plain and several other elements, including Korfmann's lower town with its ditch enclosure on Hisarlik, some flood control structures, and two cuts through the Aegean coastal cliffs.  

Come back to this blog for more discussion.