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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Notes on the Kalifatli Asmak

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If I could fund a study, it might be a professional study of the Asmaks in the plain of Troy, including a live walking-scientist type search...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Heinrich Schliemann finds Bricks in the Plain of Troy

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Heinrich Schliemann,  Ilios, The City and Country of the Trojans,  discussing the excavations of Dr Virchow: He dug a fourth hole in the dry...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

The Myth of the Greek Camp in Homer's Iliad

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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 ...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Historical Descriptions of the Hill at Kumkale

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