Troy - Northwest Turkey

The city of antiquity was the landscape of Troy in northwest Turkey on Hellespont Pont in Canakkale. The city on the Dardanelles in antiquity controlled access to the Black Sea and brought Troy collected by the Wegzoll wealth. The Iliad by Homer made the ground by the story of the Trojan War world. Even in the Roman Empire were the legendary heroes of Troy highly revered but with the beginning of the Christian Middle Ages, the city lost importance and its history fell into oblivion. UNESCO said the excavation site in 1998, a World Heritage Site.

In 1868, the German amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in the level of Troas to see if the legendary Troy for it. He was sentenced to not only find and wanted to leave but then trief to Frank Calvert, Schliemann was convinced of his theory that the ruins of Homer's Troy on the hill of Hisarlik, had hidden. The most spectacular Fund Schliemann was the so-called Priam's Treasure, a gold treasure for a long time Antique Museum in Berlin and was kept after the Second World War as looted art in the former USSR was brought. The fund provided Schliemann of science and archaeology worldwide reputation and archaeology was finally as a serious scientific discipline recognised.

The excavations showed the Troy of the Early Bronze Age (5000 BC) to the late populated. The city had more far-reaching raids survived but their settlement ended with some severe earthquakes towards the end of the 5 century. It was a variety of theories in the course of time over this city. The excavations were only in 1988 again occupied by an international team under the German Prähistoriker Manfred Korfmann. His theory has triggered a discussion among the ancient scientists showed what the core to the size and importance of the late Troy shot. The research and excavations were Korfmann's death in August 2005 by Ernst Pernicka as scientific director of the Troy project continued and ongoing. We want the 18-year series of excavations to end now.