Show horse of troy tradition gets scientific approval quite often scientists prove some honored ancient tradition to be wrong but there are times when they prove an honored ancient tradition to be right for many a century until science came along with its trained archeologists archaeologists to prove that there really was something to the old tradition of troy and helen of troy and the trojan horse scholars regarded it as an entertaining story but no more they even debated the question whether there ever was a troy and they sometimes proved that there for the last seven years american archeologists archaeologists have been doing a really complete job of excavation at the site of troy and they have clearly established that the ancient city which stood for so long as a guardian of the dardanelles Darda nelles existed through more than 40 datable periods nine communities were represented by the city mound meaning that time after time the community at troy was wiped out and later leveled off and rebuilt anew on top of the remains of the former cities troy had nine lives in fact writes dr jotham johnson university of pittsburgh archeologist archaeologist arche in the scientific american the expeditions ions at troy were headed by prof carl blegen biegen of the university of cincinnati first to be unearthed was a spacious hall with 10 columns dating from 1900 to 1400 B C evidences of destruction of the city by fire were found at several depths in the form of a layer of ash and charred materials shattered stones at one level indicated earthquake cle destruction finally the earliest occupation level of all was revealed with a fortification wall and gates flanked by projecting towers troy bea before ore the beginning of the age of metals science thus has given ample evidence for the existence of a real and actual troy so let lovers of the odyssey and the iliad rejoice |