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The Trojan War: Did It Really Happen? Complete History | Sleep Story
Drift off to the complete history of the Trojan War — one of history's most captivating questions. Homer's Iliad describes a 10-year siege of the city of Troy by the Greeks. But did it really happen? Modern archaeology has found a city at Hisarlik, Turkey — but separating myth from history is one of the great challenges of classical scholarship.
Covered: Homer and the Iliad, the legendary story (Paris, Helen, Achilles, Hector, the Trojan Horse), Heinrich Schliemann and the discovery of Troy, the archaeological layers of Hisarlik (Troy VIIa as the probable site), Linear B tablets and Hittite…
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