The Greek poet Homer wrote about the ancient city in The Iliad. It is located in western Turkey near the entrance of the Dardanelles strait which connects the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea by way of the Sea of Marmara. Troy is one of the world’s most important archaeological sites because of its place in literature and what it tells us about a critical early period in the development of European civilization. Archaeologists have been excavating here since the 1870's and have found evidence of nine different settlements built on top of each other at different periods since the Bronze Age. In some places visitors can see all nine levels ...
