[Red Badger]

The Trojans lost........................

But later became THE ROMAN EMPIRE!....................

[dfwgator]

The Trojans lost........................

That's why they hired Lincoln Riley. ;)

[SunkenCiv]

:^) That was a politically convenient claim, a supporting myth, written up in a poem funded by the regime. The Rome-bashing whackos who push various anachronistic myths didn't invent the practice. (^:

[SunkenCiv]

If only the Trojans had relied on their mightiest warrior, Prophylaxis...

[SunkenCiv]

Not sure, maybe this got posted at the time.

In Search of Troy
By Joshua Hammer
Photographs by Rena Effendi
March 2022
It wasn’t just a legend. Archaeologists are getting to the bottom of the city celebrated by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-search-of-troy-180979553/