sanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 9 days agoToday I learned that, unlike Hollywood depicts it, ancient Troy was not part of the european/hellenic cultural sphere. It was a purely Anatolian indigenous polity, similar to the Hittites (In fact, T…lemmy.todayimagemessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up127arrow-down1imageToday I learned that, unlike Hollywood depicts it, ancient Troy was not part of the european/hellenic cultural sphere. It was a purely Anatolian indigenous polity, similar to the Hittites (In fact, T…lemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 9 days agomessage-square22linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBourff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 days agohttps://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik “…Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy […]”.
minus-squareTeaWithDani@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-29 days agoFeel free to read those scholars if you want to be unimpressed. I am unconvinced by the faint evidence. I’ll grant them it’s more historical than Atlantis.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik
“…Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy […]”.
Feel free to read those scholars if you want to be unimpressed. I am unconvinced by the faint evidence.
I’ll grant them it’s more historical than Atlantis.