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Troy: Battlefield of Myth and Truth
Longer than Troy’s fabled siege, Professor Manfred Korfmann’s excavation yielded a royal Hittite seal that corroborates the city’s location. But does it prove Homer’s Iliad is no myth? This program traces the course of the modern search for ...
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History's turning points II: search for Troy
Heinrich Schliemann was a German grocer's boy who had made a fortune in the gold fields of California and became an archaeologist. He dug for three years at Hissarlik in modern Turkey, determined to prove that it was the site of the Troy of the anci...