I read a interesting theory of what TROY really might have been.
Wanted to see what yaul think.
Do not base this on the movie but the story over all.
First of all the only thing in "The Illiad" that even links the greeks is that Homer was a greek sailor (well that doesnt mean much).
This is the story as i read it, as to what might have really happened.
Back in about 1100 BC (the date of TROY) sometime before that there was a group called the Celtics (hince names like the Celts), they had come out of the middle east and Africa as the Egyptian empire fell apart. Rome was just forming its empire but barely existed.
the Celtics moved into Europe and would live all over untill the Roman Empire pushed them north into Scandanavia and other non ruled nations.
The bronze age came about because of them, and at one point they found out that Tin would make their bronze items even better.
In a land called TROAD (hince troy) there were a large amount of tin mines. The
2007-01-29
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