Groundbreaking Discovery at
Ancient City of Troy May Prove Legendary Trojan War True
Archaeologists
digging at the ruins of ancient Troy have unearthed fresh evidence of a violent
Bronze Age conflict, one that mirrors Homer's Iliad.
According to Homer's
Iliad, the war began after Paris of Troy abducted Helen, wife of the Spartan
king, triggering a Greek siege lasting 10 years.
The most famous scene of the tale is the
wooden horse used by the Greeks to sneak into
the city and destroy it from within.
Now, a team
of Turkish researchers have uncovered dozens of clay and smoothed river rock
sling stones, unearthed just outside what would have been the palace walls,
along with arrowheads, charred buildings, and hastily buried human skeletons.
Together, experts say, the clues paint a
chilling picture of close-range fighting and a sudden, catastrophic fall, just
as the ancient Greeks described.
'This concentration of sling stones in such
a small area suggests intense fighting, either a desperate defense or a
full-scale assault,' said Professor Rustem Aslan of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart
University, who is leading the excavation.
The sling stones,
smoothed to aerodynamic perfection, were one of the Bronze Age's deadliest weapons,
capable of cracking skulls at range when hurled from leather slings.
The stones found at the site date to around
3,200 to 3,600 years ago, exactly the period believed to match the Trojan War,
which according to Greek historians took place around 1184 BC.
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