For centuries, it was thought that Troy was just a myth, a work of imagination in Homer’s poem, part of the Trojan War in Greek mythology, a city that never existed. in.
However, in 1860, the real Troy was found in northwestern Anatolia, Türkiye. According to the research of archaeologists, during the Eastern Roman period, Troy was built and destroyed many times, then completely abandoned.
Troy was recognized by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage in 1988.
