Heinrich Schliemann,  Ilios, The City and Country of the Trojans,  discussing the excavations of Dr Virchow: He dug a fourth hole in the dry...

I have already suggested on this blog that the entire story of a fortified Greek Camp might just be a myth.  In this entry I will argue at ...

 Let's begin with a statement from Walter Leaf,  Troy, A study in Homeric Geography  (1912)  Firstly, as to the "spring of the plai...

 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...

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...

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

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