[TigerLikesRooster]

FYI

[TigerLikesRooster]

This is for you. I enjoy your postings on archeology and
ancient history greatly. Keep it coming and please ping me
if you post one.

[11th_VA]

Very interesting - put me on your ping list as well.

[capitan_refugio]

As a geologist and a Trojan (the USC type), I fully endorse this thread.

Bump

[SteveH]

I wonder if it was man made erosion (as in, logging forests) which caused the bay to fill.

There's a typo in the first inset box... John Kraft, not Chris Kraft... someone's daydreaming about a nice fishing boat!

[WatchNKorea]

Thank you for this informative post. Keep up the good work.

[yianni]

Ping, please.

[Eternal_Bear]

Alexander the Great literally believed in the account provided by the Iliad. For him, his invasion of the Persian Empire was the resumption of a war started 800 years previously between Europe and Asia. He later went on the conquer Southwest Asia and ascribed it to divine providence. It just all goes to show what believing in myths can do for you.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Whew! For a minute there I thought they had dug up the Coliseum field to study all those Irish that were slaughtered last November!

[KellyAdmirer]

Silting in of the old coastline is very common in Turkey. Former seaside towns such as Ephesus and Priene now are miles inland. Gradual lack of access to the sea is what killed those towns but, ironically, is what preserved some of them in magnificent condition.

[SunkenCiv]

A Blast from the Past (early 2002). Thanks TigerLikesRooster.

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[gobucks]

Did they by chance find the fossilized snakes that killed Laocoon and his sons?

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[ZULU]

Yes, I love this stuff. Please put me on your Ping list.

Personally, I believe the essence of the Epic Stories about Troy. All the characters may not have been real, but the basic tale probably was and some at least, of the characters were.

There are also those mysterious references in the Hittite Archives of about the same period about a king whose name sounds a like "Alexander" a city which sounds alot like "Illion", and an invading people attacking the northwestern part of the Hittite allied states, which would put them near the area of Troy. Those people are referred to in the Hittite archives under a name that sounds suspiciously like "Achaeians".

[steveo]

Geologists investigate Trojan battlefield - condoms everywhere!

[razorback-bert]

Interesting, thanks for the post.

I am sure this will be spun as more Global Warming.

[SunkenCiv]

Geologists Show Homer Got It Right
Nature | 1-29-2003 | Philip Ball
Posted on 01/29/2003 7:58:53 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/832119/posts

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