It wasn't far to go from Mustafa's to the entrance area of Troja (Troy) with that overdimensional, wooden horse that was once given to the place by ... don't know. Ah well. Ulrich felt he had to climb into the highest spot inside and wave down to us :D.
Signs tried to show and explain somehow how many layers of settlements there really are, there is no ONE Troja (Troy), but there have been settlement upon settlement, and pre-Homeric ones at the farther bottom, the Homeric Troy somewhere in between (well, the excavations which are assumed to be the Homeric Troy), and newer settlements above.
It is not quite so easily understood, I must say! But then I'm no archaelogist myself and basically know next to nothing about excavations. Less even about any means to determine which stone belongs to which layer and so on. Whoa!
But in amongst a lot of grass covered "rubble", we also came past intact walls, one of which was said to have belonged to Troy so-and-so (please, don't ask me!), with in-built niches where the people of the times thought they could not be seen by their enemies in case they press themselves flatly to the wall, which did not work out as well as had been planned, though ...
The excavations abruptly end and the precipitation of a hill, and below that area there is farmland today, while in the times reported from when it was still a thriving town, the sea reached almost to where the town was, and ships could land right next to it. Now the sea is several kilometres away from this hill.
The fact that at first and quite early on it was a German archeological society which dedicated themselves to the excavations can still be seen in the old, in part even rusty signs in German language.
It also reads Turkish and English, but in the middle it is German.
More to come.
The fact that at first and quite early on it was a German archeological society which dedicated themselves to the excavations can still be seen in the old, in part even rusty signs in German language.
It also reads Turkish and English, but in the middle it is German.
More to come.
