A lot of people who are interested in Troy like me have tried solving the question ‘Did Troy exist?’ Although we do not have the final proven answer, there have been a lot of discoveries made. Around 1800~1900, many of excavations of Troy were made. Of all those excavations of Troy, the excavation of Heinrich Schliemann (1822~1890) is the most well known. When Schliemann was a young child, he was inspired by the Trojan War written by Homer, he believed Troy really existed, he promised himself to discover Troy. Schliemann learned 13 languages to discover Troy. After all the traveling and studying, Schliemann finally discovered Mycenae and Troy. 2To list some of the excavations, the tomb of Klytaimnestra (wife of the Greece warrior Agamemnon) was found outside of Mycenae by Sophia Schliemann (wife of Heinrich Schliemann) in 1876. The Schliemann made another big discovery during 1871~1873. They found 3 superimposed walls, a rampart. Not only did they find the rampart, they also found jewelries, sheet gold ornaments, gold plate, golden swords and more high valued things. Unfortunately, the tomb of Klytaimnestra was already robbed when it was discovered. These are some evidences of Troy that Schliemann found.
A lot of schools, professors and universities also tried searching for Troy. 5Professor Manfred Korfmann excavated Troy. He found the size of Troy, how the Trojan War would have been and what a great city Troy was. The British school found the meeting hall, located in Megalopolis, where major projects were commissioned. 3Professor Brian Rose, a professor of the university of Cincinnati, rather than excavating, he tried to persuade or tell us that the Trojan war was not real, but Troy did exist, so he tried to separate the war and Troy. However the University of Delaware tried to persuade us that Troy and the Trojan War are related.
Others also tried to find out Troy’s truth. Such can be Greek Archaeological service exploring Dodona and other two places. The French also explored Akarnania during 1880~1890. In 1874, a German Archaeological Institute was opened in Athens about the evidences of Troy. Some people summarize the excavations of other people like 1Kagan Agun, summarized the excavation of Wihelm Dorpfeld, Charles Mclaren and Manfed Kolfmann. Although these people explored and studied rather than discovering, these can help people who are not experts in Troy to understand and connect the knowledge we have for Troy with the news and the findings of Troy more easily.
I really want to know the answer and the truth of Troy. With the evidences that I collected and known to the world, I say Troy did exist. Although I cannot be perfectly sure, I say there are more possibilities that Troy is real than Troy being an imagination. I mean, ask, what are those discoveries and evidences, if it is not from Troy when it was found in the same place as Troy was recorded to be? Plus, so many of the evidences answer the questions correctly, such as the location, time line, stories, legends and myths with proofs. Although I am not sure if the Trojan War existed, I believe that Troy did exist.
