Does Troy where the ancient Trojan war happened really exist nowadays and where?

Answer 1

Today there is a Turkish town called Truva in the vicinity of the archaeological site, but this town has grown up recently to service the tourist trade. The archaeological site is officially called Troia by the Turkish government and appears as such on many maps.

A large number of tourists visit the site each year, mostly coming from Istanbul by bus or by ferry via Çanakkale, the nearest major town about 50 km to the north-east. The visitor sees a highly commercialised site, with a large wooden horse built as a playground for children, then shops and a museum. The archaeological site itself is, as a recent writer said, "a ruin of a ruin," because the site has been frequently excavated, and because Schliemann's archaeological methods were very destructive: in his conviction that the city of Priam would be found in the earliest layers, he demolished many interesting structures from later eras, including all of the house walls from Troy II. For many years also the site was unguarded and was thoroughly looted. However what remains, particularly if put into context by one of the knowledgeable professional guides to the site, is an illuminating insight into civilizations of the Bronze Age, if not to the legends themselves.


**Today Troy or New Ilium are places in Hisarlik at Canakkale where the remains of the city can be visited.

Answer 2

Troy existed at a point that would have effectively controlled access to the Black Sea. The Greeks were a trading people, and wanted access to the Black Sea. There are eminently possible geopolitical reasons for a war between the Greeks and the Trojans in Archaic times. The site of Troy has been discovered, and many of the layers of the city were destroyed by fire. Put those two facts together and a war between the Greeks and the Trojans is quite likely. How many ships were involved, whether the war lasted 10 years and whether it was ended by the stratagem of a wooden horse is unknowable, but unlikely. That Achilles was invulnerable except for his heel or the Gods were involved and took sides are highly unlikely.

Answer 3

The Troy of the Trojan War lies beneath meters of ruins under a hill of rubble called Hisarlık in Anatolia, Turkey. The most likely candidate of Homeric Troy is a layer of rubble the archaeologists call "Troy VIIa". No town has been on the same spot since Byzantine times.

Answer 4

Yes, Troy did exist, in what is now known as the country of Turkey. In the northwest. After the Greeks wiped them out, the remaining Trojans in Europe fled to the area of what is today Italy and became the Etruscans. Wikipedia on the internet has some great information.

Answer 5

Yes, archaeologists think that Troy actually existed and we found the ruins, but there is no city where it once was. We are still excavating the ruin site. As to where....I think it lies in what is now Turkey, more specifically the Anatolia region.

Answer 6

It exists, but only as excavated ruins. To the best of my knowledge, there is no modern city comparable to Troy on the same or a nearby location.

Doc Hudson

Answer 7

It is on the western part of the Turkish peninsular, found by a German Schliemann, using text from Homer, to work out where it was.