Levels at Troy

One of the most interesting things about Troy is not the link to the ancient legend of the battle waged there, but how many "Troys" there actually were -- at least 10, not counting all the levels within each of the separate 10 eras. Here was a site almost continuously occupied for millenia, with earthwuakes, wars and invasions occasionally wiping out, but never erasing entirely the site of a settled populace. Scientists still argue over whether the Troy of Paris, Helen, Hector and Achilles (or Orlando, Eric and Brad, if you will) was 6 or 7. Both were destroyed by fire, but there is a question of whether the peoples at the time eventually returned to rebuild or vanished (as they did in the epics. Here is a shot of some of the levels, marked by the small, white placards.