City of Troy history

Those who did believe in the existence of a real Troy thought it to be at Bunarbashi (Pınarbaşı), a short distance south of Hisarlık. It took Frank Calvert, a scholarly amateur archaeologist, until 1860 to begin exploratory work on Hisarlık.

1900 to 1100 bce). Troy at this time had new and vigorous settlers who introduced domesticated horses to the Aegean area.

Commercial and industrial development reached Oakland County after World War II. The City of Troy was established as a home rule city in 1955 and during the next 25 years, the community experienced extraordinary growth.

The objects were technically shielded from repatriation by a 1970 Unesco treaty prohibiting museums from acquiring artifacts that left their country of origin after 1970 without full documentation.

Beginning in 1988, Korfmann’s team investigated the terrain surrounding the citadel site in search of wider settlement.

The city center also has a good variety of restaurants along the seafront (Kordon), where you will also get to see the wooden Trojan horse model used in the 2004 Wolfgang Petersen movie “Troy”.

After 2012, Canakkale 18 Mart University continues the excavations with the new team under the direction of Rustem Aslan from Canakkale 18 Mart University.

The Troy Museum, an $8 million showcase adjacent to the ruins that spans 5,000 years of history, opened in October 2018.

In 2019, he dug down to the bedrock and uncovered the remains—pottery shards, wooden beams—of a pre-Bronze Age settlement from 3500 B.C., showing that Troy was at least 600 years older than archaeologists had previously thought.