Show t Is I t i iI i i iI I y 0 r eV y w y w r af kil kilts ts x K Ruins of Troy I Pro pared by the National Geographic Society Ws Washington D D. C. C Within the Zone of ot the Straits the thc the strip of land Kind bordering the Dardanelles Dardanelles Darda Darda- nelles the and the Aegean sen sea whose e International control Is likely to be altered somewhat b by revision revision re ra re- re vision Islon of the time treaty of ot lles lies the time subject of ot one of f the worlds world's greatest epics Troy lroy where two nations I fought for tor the time fair Helen Delen The Trojan walls unvIsited by bJ the Idle tourist are arc still In evidence e those same walls that defied the onslaughts on of ot Agamemnon and Menelaus of Ajar Ajax Nestor Diomed Ulysses and Achilles to fall taU nt at last by stratagem They remained as n a ruined and abandoned abandoned aban aban- abandoned stage minus its paraphernalia whereon was played so many centuries ago nn un Insignificant little drama compared com coin pared with modern events but it was wasn wasa n a drama so big with human Interest divinely dl told that the world worM has never known its equal To be sure It was all nU in the telling and what would Troy have been without without without with with- out Its Homer Still as ns the theater of the worl worlds world's s 's greatest epic poem It deserves n a visit any year every aery year car carI I In the time thoughts and emotions It re- re iv 4 J jn the r t sense of ot fn Indebtedness of ot nil all sub t quent quest literature and art It richly repays repays re rc re- re pa pays s 's a visit The Time classical student will leave It In a daze of meditation upon things more real to him lint than thun the actual things s he has hns seen and touched In visiting the ruins of Tro Troy one 6 sets tS out from the village e of Dardanelles Darda Darda- Dardanelles nelles for a 0 five hours hours' hot and dusty ride After n a couple of hours' hours travel through h the plain the road grows S rougher lougher and begins to ascend Into hilly country The traveler realizes that he should he be nearing historic ground now and he glances around the horizon to see ee If he can Identify Mi Mt It Ida and toward the tea rca for a n first filSt sight of but hut no no this flits Is only soil soli Rounding Hounding the summit of the next rise one sees secs the road lending leading down clown into eren Koul Rout a Turkish village a n convenient halting place for coffee Then the time ron road begins to wind through h the lie village In a u gradual descent until It makes a sudden Jerky little HUle turn Into the open country and anel b behold hold the plain of or Troy not the plain of the thc historic historic historic his his- action but the drainage area which Includes es Troy To the Hill of Ilium The road load leads straight toward a ridge idge In the distance th the of ut Ilium at nt the time lower point of or which will presently appear I the ruins It was down that Identical ridge e or so soone soone soone one tells oneself that hut the angry god Apollo strode c toward vengeance while the arrows s In the quiver on his shoulder clanged In ominous 11 mu music m lc I Yonder the time summit of ot Mt It Ida where t the Hie gods In solemn conclave e so 50 often orten sat Away Awny over there skirting time the ridge of Ilium is stream or should be but the bridge across it shows upon approach that modern I Is no more than a creek Worse Wone than thun tl following Its attenuated course cours less than thun u mile downstream one discovers ers that lint It ends In a morass Instead of or joining the time ns os of or orore yore ore And the latter s stream lum Is scarcely scarce scarce- e. e ly Iy less les disappointing for lor It Is no more dignified In bin size or appearance In fact their sluggish currents united CIO can scarcely boast of ot banks e except at occasional oc oc- l intervals for both streams broad swales ales ln are now only su mOl merging with the time adjacent plain with no continuous continuous con con- current toward the sea sen except In seasons of high water If It such ore are ever known Imo Behold the ruins at lit last I 1 A long low lots lo 11 ridge Il ge some ome four tour or five fhe miles in length ends abruptly like a n promontory tor tory projecting Into the sea 11 above which It ft rises about 30 feet The ridge Idge Is the time called so-called Hill Hili of or Ilium the thc sea Is time the floodplain of the and ancl historically lly known as the plain of Tro Troy and the promontory with Its crown of or ruins Is Troy Tro- Itself You walk around the ruins and make the surprising discover discover- hut If the welkins walking were good you TOO ud uld casH easily do lo It In ten minutes Ast Astonishing Is la lathis this nil all there was of ot Troy and did this little stronghold withstand a n nine years years' siege and still remain unconquered unconquered by br force Impossible I The whole Hill of Ilium ma may have been fortified and to some seine extent populated ed otherwise how was the garrison provisioned pro details like these never ne troubled Homer floater so why bother about them Unearthed by Every ery student knows of ot the remarkable remarkable remark remark- able work worle of In unearthing these ruins and establishing their theirl identity l as ns those of ot the veritable Troy of Homer of ot the Indefatigable zeal the determined search for Cor the location locution the willing half consent of ot the Turkish government to and the financial and physical obstacles to be overcome But the work worle did begin at last and tho time first walls to appear beneath the spade were ere strange walls not those described described described de de- de- de scribed by Homer and the order was to dig deeper Still further ruins of ot city after city were unearthed till Homers Homer's Troy nil all that Is s left of It was laid bare bale Only the antiquarian can cnn see sec tho the significance of all aIt these things as ns he lie t S up up and owr nod and these among disordered plies piles of what once was masonry but even en nn an uninformed uninformed formed tourist can cnn see the difference between the rubble walls of a n later date and the worthier structures which preceded them There are arc walls too which show tho the marks of a 0 mighty conflagration and these it is s opined are arc the time saute sane whence Aeneas Did from fromn the flames of ot Troy upon his I shoulder The TIle old bear bearon on cn that lust last terrible night of destruction tion ion One instinctively ely looks for th the gap ap in the Avail through which the time wooden woollen horse was Introduced but he looks In iii vain nin Earthenware cisterns I I of some seine 20 O gallons capacity for holdIng hold hold- Ing lag oil or wine were CIC built Into the walls while bits of ot iridescent glass pieces of pottery cobblestones anelcIa and anel cIa clay were filled in around them Wall of Priam Still Stands But there Is still left one precious bit of Homeric architecture if It the time archaeologists are me correct raising its crown an as high as any of the time walls of ot subsequent date dute It Is part of oi a n bastion bas tion facing toward the he Hill Hili of Ilium and known as the time Wall of Priam It was as meant to stand throughout the ages whoever was Its builder and andone andone andone one ur ardently wishes to give the credit for Its construction to those times dines ItIs It Itis Itis is u a noble wall well pointed well laid well preserved capa capable le yet ret of withstanding such assaults as when Ajax strives some stones stone's vast weight weIGh t to throw throat Frown From Its cornier corner overlooking the plain glair of an nn outside stairway descends toward the ri river rier er possibly a later lafer feature Could this have ha been heen the thc corner of the thc wall wl wh re stood the Gate where th tha venerable Father Priam brought the b beautiful Helen In n or order el to lo show her the ene- ene enemy my m. her own countrymen and kindred I on the plain below helow where he lie pointed I out ort the thc leaders naming Imming them Individually wally and there Is Menelaus thy former formel husband It may well have lui been the time same and romance nt at least will have han It so Scattered about are ure bits of of- of of sculptured lured marble the remains perhaps of ot Roman or Alexandrine occupation OIlIn OIl Off OffIn Off Offin In the dreamy distance lies sinister not hot ot discernible discernible ex cx In the time clearest t weather weather and and by bythe bythe bythe the t shore hore near neu where the Dardanelles meets the S sea 1 whence whence Thetis ml might ht nt nay any moment arise is a n tumulus known as na the tomb of Achilles an and j I Inc nc nearby by another nc th i- i ith th the tomb of Patro- Patro clu clus The Thc excavations at Troy lroy have ha re- re rei i that no less than nine lu layers i I exist upon which nt at various times durIng during dur- dur durI dur- during I ing Ul the to past years IS hail nabi- j i have bave b been dl bull bum bulU I |