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Saturday, December 28, 2024

Peter Forschhammer describes annual flooding in the Plain of Troy

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 Peter Forschhammer visited the plain of Troy in 1839.  In 1842 he published the following:  There is no other plain in Asia Minor so much s...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Frank Calvert Drained Judan Lake

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In earlier posts I have treated Judan Lake as an anomaly in the plain of Troy that appears on old maps but is no longer present in the plain...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Heinrich Schliemann describes a swamp in the plain of Troy

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Homer never mentions a river called Thymbrius.  Other authors do, however.  The temple of Apollo Thymbrius was supposed to be near the place...
Friday, November 1, 2024

Herodotus on the Causes of the Trojan War

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These are the first lines of  Herodotus' Histories .   So these lines are known as  Histories I, 1-6.  They tell an alternative story a...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

On Atlantis, Graham Hancock and Ignatius Donnelly

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Perhaps the most annoying habit of Atlantis interpreters is the one pointed out by Dr Miano on Youtube: The typical Atlantis interpreter ad...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

24 Anomalies in the Plain of Troy

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"From Hısarlık, we can see several other mounds." In Search of the Real Troy   https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200501/in.sea...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Two more anomalies in the Plain of Troy

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I noticed both of these a long time ago but have never mentioned them.   The first anomaly is a long, straight, raised area going NW from th...