[MadIvan]

There was just a documentary on television here about Troy - apparently the ruins are still being uncovered. As it turns out, much of the Iliad is correct.

Regards, Ivan

[redgolum]

Saw that too.

I loved the story of the guy that found it. Talk about an eccentric!

[mass55th]

Do you ever watch Time Team on Channel 4? Living here in the U.S., we are limited in the number of programs they show on History Channel International, and the ones they do show are years old. I was able to get a region-free DVD player so I could purchase the Time Team DVD set (best digs from various shows) released earlier this year. I sure wish they would release DVD's of the individual programs. I understand they are in their 13th season. I'm presently reading the Time Team Guide to the archaeological sites in Britain and Ireland. It's a great book. Hopefully one of these days I'll be able to see them first hand.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Let the revisionists try to rewrite history.

Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon prove them mostly to be liars or at least incompetent though still arrogant.

IIRC, newer historians said Herodotus can't be trusted because where he claims the battle to have take place was a mile or two from the beach head so there couldn't have been battles on the coast. Then someone got the bright idea that perhaps alluvial deposits from the delta may have pushed the coastline out. They calculated the amount of sediment per year times the number of alleged years since the Iliad. They went inland that much distance and dug. Seashells.