TROY

Troy is now a mound of dirt outside the village of Truva.  The farmers cultivated the land as close to the chunks of stone and marble as possible.  Basically, it was just a hill that could not be used for planting.  I was hard for us to let our imaginations work when it appeared to be so many different stone foundations and historical periods all rolled into one.

They have determined that there were 9 different periods of building in this site, and at one time probably did go most of the way to the Aegean Sea.   They discontinued the major digging about 5 years ago.   

We were not all that impressed with Troy.  There was just something lacking that the other historical site had that made this less interesting.  Or maybe by this time in the trip we were just tired of seeing old rocks and artists depictions.