Random Troy
Troy VI was spacious enough that people lived in houses of this many storeys
Two
Confident he knew which layer of the city was Homer's Troy, Schliemann dug all the way down to this layer
Troy II
Make like Zeus and take in the views of the Trojan War from this mountaintop
Mount Ida
"Salting the evidence? No way, this is Priam's treasure, no doubt about it!"
Heinrich Schliemann
Troy was in the market for lots of copper and tin, used to make this important alloy.
Bronze
Troy is known by this name in the Hittite records
Wilusa
This archaeologist found evidence of a lower town
Manfred Korfmann
This river - also the name of a town in Tasmania - was a key landmark for Schliemann as he searched for Troy.
Scamander
"Agamemnon thinks he can take my woman and get away with it? I'm going to go and complain to my mum Thetis, and I'm going to stop fighting for these stupid Greeks."
Quite a bit of the pottery found at Troy VI belongs to these Greek people.
Mycenaeans
Need to stock up on supplies in case of siege? Store it in these large vessels.
Pithoi
WWII interrupted this archaeologist's excavations of the site
This strait near Troy is now known as the Dardanelles
Hellespont
"I'm just a nice American archaeologist, and the first person to film excavations at Troy."
Blegen
Some historians theorise that Troy traded in tin from this area
Afghanistan
The walls in Troy VI were this many metres thick in places.
Four
This archaeologist drew detailed maps of the walls of the different Troys that are still used today
Dorpfeld
Troy is closest to this sea
Aegean
"My, my, that Helen of Sparta is a great lady... might have to make off with her to my home town of Troy. Surely her husband won't be too mad?"
This shipwreck, found off the coast of Turkey, provides evidence of strong trade routes around the Aegean and Mediterranean.
Uluburun
Architects at Troy paid particular attention to the defensive features around these weak points.
Gates
This current head archaeologist has found evidence of an even older level of Troy, which he has called Troy 0
Aslan
Earlier versions of Troy had close trade contact with the Minoans, who were based on this Greek island
"Maybe I'm one guy, maybe I'm 100. You'll never know, but either way you'll enjoy my two bestsellers, the Iliad and the Odyssey."
This historian says that Troy is the "gateway between Europe and Asia"
Wright (1998)