Troy, Schliemann or Wilkens?

Humorous and yet another attempt by the brits to claim they are the center of the universe.

In November 2001, geologists John C. Kraft from the University of Delaware and John V. Luce from Trinity College, Dublin presented the results of investigations into the geology of the region that had started in 1977. The geologists compared the present geology with the landscapes and coastal features described in the Iliad and other classical sources, notably Strabo's Geographia. Their conclusion was that there is regularly a consistency between the location of Troy as identified by Schliemann (and other locations such as the Greek camp), the geological evidence, and descriptions of the topology and accounts of the battle in the Iliad.

Second point: by reading the Iliad, we note that the Greeks leave Greece and stop in Tenedos & Lesbos (among others) before arriving at Troy. Therefore, the Greeks were eastward bound not westward.

Third, although tin was a key component of bronze manufacturing, most of the shipping was handled either by celts (as an example the Veneti of Aremorica) or Phoenician traders. There is no known recording of an event of this magnitude in the Phoenician records. There are however Hittite and Babylonian records that do indicate the destruction of a major city that correspond to Homer's Troy int the same (general) area.

Sorry Wilkens but Schliemann beat you to Troy.

Let's look at the facts Schliemann found a set of cities on the place that Homer said the city of Troy was located, He found that the cities had been rich and well established. True there is no proof that the cities were Troy or that the Trojan Wars actually happened I would go with Schliemann over a theory that Troy was in England. It strikes me as an attempt to take the glories of Minoa away from the Med.