Outstanding. Thanks to the perseverance of one man, humanity added a major jewel to its treasure. In memoriam of archeologist Manfred Korfmann, leading the works at this site. R.I.P.

I was there in 1985. Fascinating place. It was a Turkish holiday so I don't remember anyone else being there except a guy selling hand made Trojan horses from match sticks (I still have it), a ticket seller and 2 of my friends.

That motivation can do anything. thanks to everyone who ever involved in this venture.god bless them.

Rare to find a relatively recent documentary this good! Thank you

I live in Turkey, this documentary is very successful. I believe that troy was real and the trojan war likely exist in here !

Absolutely intriguing and fascinating. Thank you for posting/sharing.

Excellent documentary, really enjoyed it. I've subscribed, thanks for posting.

Great documentary

A cogent discourse I have ever heard! Marvelous!

Ancient stuff gives my brain a break from today while working.

very good

Thanks for a great watch interesting makes you wonder what if it’s true

Interesting very interesting

Troy must have been an incredible sight back then. Impressive walls, and large buildings painted with vibrant colors. The sights, sounds and smells, good and bad, of a large ancient bronze age city. The war could easily have been fought for 10 years, but it probably was on and off, not constant. Although the 10 year time frame, like the 1,000 ships was probably an exaggeration, an embellishment, for dramatic purposes, just like follywood does today. And if the beach at Troy was all swamp and marsh land (mosquitos heaven) where did the Greek fleet land and camp??

What a great documentary. Shame there is an ad every 6 minutes!

Maurico Druon, secretary of the French Academy: "Albanians belonging to those people older than History itself. Albanian grandparents participated in the war of Troy, led by Achilles (on one side) and Hector (the other side) ". Troy was a battle between North Albanians/ Illyrians Gheg und South Albanians/Pelasgians Tosk. Helen was never the reason! There were some religious conflicts between Illyrians and Pelasgians. Troy was not a city, but a region with 12 communities in North Albania. You find all the myths of that time stamped on the North Albanian folkloric costumes.

In Ephesus they had the same thing with the nearby sea. It was in former times much closer than it is today

I've seen numerous documentaries on Troy over the years and this one is good. I have never believed in the "Helen" part of the story. Nor do I believe in the duration of 10 years. I'm even skeptical of 10 months when considering the amount of infrastructure required to fight a war for 10 years. Imagine the amount of food, water, armament, arrows and the amount of soldiers that were killed everyday. I also don't believe in the 10 year voyage home of Odyseus. I have no problem believing that this is the location of Troy, but the war was fought for greed and wealth. One of the documentaries I've seen mention a wall in Troy that could not be scaled by the Greeks as it was smooth and the stones were rounded as if by heating. The narrator did a test with the same type of stones and fire and the stones did become smooth. Schliemann discovered this wall and it was where Homer said it was. As added proof for the validity of the site being Troy, DNA tests could be done on the human remains that lie outside of the walls of Troy to determine if they are Greek in origin.

Finally the truth about this incredible city of acient times! 👍

I mean are the arrows and spear head found in the walls greek made or same as all the others found around the site? Cause typically only enemy weaponry would be found embedded into the walls, unless of course their was perhaps a civil war at some point in time which would explain it.

Shout out to the dude in the California Raisins shirt 2:37

It’s literally EXACTLY how it was described. It makes me really think like about Plato and Atlantis. I’ve been obsessed with the eye of the Sahara for a while now and it just seems so perfect for that to be the sight of Atlantis. “Why isn’t anything there anymore” because there was a giant flood. If you look at the sand striatum s and the ripples of the desert the waves had to have been insanely massive. So water will wash away anything if it’s powerful enough

The treasures being from a time earlier than Homer's Troy could be explained this way - it was likely looted by Troy from somewhere else. And before that, likely by various conquerors. No different from the Soviets who had taken these from Germany during WW II. And Schielman from Turkey.

It was not only Helen's beauty that launched a thousand ships - like Hercules she was divine birth from Zeus, but you keep your minds on the rocks !

My opinion on the matter. I’m convinced that once in the Bronze Age a war happened at the cite we now think is Troy and that it was between the Mycenaean Greeks and the sometimes vassal state of the Hittite kingdom named Wilusa. It might have even been fought over the “theft” of certain women or at least that used as a reason or “false flag”. The Mycenaeans often raided parts of “Asia” as they called it for women to work as slaves of the state working the flax plants into linen. Why couldn’t it have happened the other way around. I don’t understand why the Greeks would want to make what has really been the most important national or cultural myth of a war against some random city on the Troad in Asia Minor. The Hittite library of different cuneiform texts has also made it more interesting since they were deciphered. Also I’ll add that we have known the bay came up near the city in the Bronze Age, the anti chariot like ditch cut into the bedrock, and the dug out cave spring matches description very nicely. Some of the things Homer or whoever wrote down the Iliad explained so perfectly were long grown over or built over by the classical era so that complicates Homer just making it up. Finally I think the Mycenaean Greek states did very likely choose a prominent, “well bread”, older family member, or powerful strongman type king to led on the largest war expeditions. Yes they fought each other at times probably over the transfer of the kingship of a area after the death of a king without an heir to the throne. These were hard times and people died young. All my info except for a couple points I give all the credit to the wonderful documentary series by Micheal Wood called “In search of the Trojan War”. Watch all 6 episodes please you’ll love it. PS he made a lot of these claims like the fact water once did come up near the city back in the 1980’s and really gets into the most interesting important Hittite connections. Remember tons of historians and archaeologists aren’t ever gonna say it happened period. They are taught not to. They say well your guessing but they do when they want to and call it interpretation and usually just say something is “a mythological cite” or “spiritual, religious”. History especially pre history is full of much farther speculative interpretations than saying a war between the Mycenaean Greeks and Troad Trojans of Wilusa happened and became an even bigger beautiful myth.

School curriculum will now onwards include this documentary.

When is a time machine going to be invented?

Troy is in western Anatolia (Turkey).

This is assuming that everyone went to bed at the same time. Nobody was wandering around at night.

The necklace could have been passed down to King Priam

i wish I had enough time to visit the actual Troy site in June 2019, but I was on my way to Ephesus after spending 1 night at Kanakkali, Turkey. I did see the Hollywood version of the wodern trojan horse sitting in the square facing the sea, still awesome view. I wish to visit this place again, such a peacefull town in front of the sea today.

At 6'13" the narrating voice states: "The Iliad gives a haunting account of the destruction and massacre that followed [the opening of the gates of Troy by the warriors, who had been hiding inside the horse]". Sorry, guys, but EVERYBODY KNOWS that the Iliad does not include a narration of the end of the city, since it only concerns an episode of the war.

The commercials are too @$&! loud!!!

TROY = TURUL (T.R.Y. = T.R.L.) Turul is the bird emblem (falcon) in Hungary. Troyan people = hungarian (or scythian) people. Hungarian folk is the most ancient folk in the world. Scythian = sumer = parthian = celtic = etruscan = kushitan = hungarian. Jesus and Maria are scythian (notedly parthian) people. Hector = Viktor

Has to be some good tombs hidden there

They will never find a sign board - TROY.

Its definitely troy. Absolutely.

46:36 Mudflood

no wonder greek culture is seen as the mother of most european cultures. Greece sure did a number on Europe, Asia and Africa. its past is so beautiful...

@7:30, watch a large spider or ant or scorpion run across the stone to the right of the carved face. I don't know why they didn't edit that out.

My retired Army father had so many puns. One of them was referring to Homer's writings as "The Idiot and The Oddity". Did anyone else hear their dads saying things like that?

so did they find a sign saying welcome's to the city of troy populatin####

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I love it when so called 'experts' scoff at so called 'myths'...then evidence destroys them. Arrogance being destroyed never grows old

Modern archaeologists now agree that this is in fact Troy. The jewelry which disappeared for some years reappeared in Russia in the 90s.

I really need time machine

Outstanding. Shame Troy is gone and Rome still exist.

too many adds. be reasonable pls next time

What if the gold that was discovered was just old heirlooms in the vault?

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit! Per varios casus per tot discrimina rerum tendimus in Latium, sedes ubi fata quietas ostendunt: illic fas regna resurgere TROIAE. Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis! (Aeneid I, 203-207)

which army had the funny helmets?

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Can a liguist please explain how Troy came from Ilios?

it is all true

İ was hoping the Trojan horse will be found 😅

MOUND BUILDERS...HEATHER WARNINGS !!

First seek our father in heaven and his justice and everything will be added godbless

Original: Lost Worlds; the search for troy.

Troy did exist - discovered by the archaeologist Scheliman. The actual site of Troy had been built on 7 times, I think. He followed the old stories from Homer.

1:00 the experts always know best, especially the apostles of denial of other people's discoveries, aka the career debunkers. Only their own discoveries must be uncontested.

according to ancient historians Alexander and Hephaistion sacrificed at the tomb of Achilles and Patroklos. Has that site been found yet?

Makes sense the treasure he found wasn't Troy's, the greeks would have pillaged it

I think people coming from Europe would have thought "wow, lots of treasure if we take it". Europeans at this time didn't have large stone cities, though they had settlements of thousands of people, but what they did have was advanced armour, weaponry and metalworking skills, and they also had more horses than anyone else, which was effectively a military superweapon. Just so people realise, the East had cities, but it didn't mean the West was grubbing in the dirt, barely existing, they had a different way of life more based on herding cattle and horses, metallurgy and, as always, Europeans have been masters of war. When the proto-Celtic Naue II or "grip-tongue" sword made it to the East, the late bronze age collapse was upon them. Its use and the new tactics with it decimated the Mycenaean, Egyptian, Hittite, and Assyrian empires, in the hands of Mediterranean Sea Peoples.

Brilliant documentary. The detractors are rather annoying because no one is saying that the Trojan War happened exactly as in Homer. I think most people understand that the Iliad is a mythological account of a real and probably shorter and less epic war. Just because Spiderman isn't real, doesn't mean New York City doesn't exist.

In my opinion, salaak if translated in English means Troy..

Unwatchable due to the ads

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Aww it's the age-old scene of dudes in bar fight over a chick... Timeless traditions will never die out I guess.... I wonder would the war have even happened if Paris had just told Menelaus, "don't hate the player... Hate the game?"

It's not lost. It's a suburb of Detroit, which is just a little like being lost.

9 layers with so many artifacts and just shallow bedtime story.

If cities were seen by archaeologists it doesn't mean they are subject to revival.

generational paradigms like this happen in every field of life. They've done the same with exodus all built on a foundation of mistakes and wrong chronology. Its paradigms in biology geology evolution you name it. Even in everyday life.

O cavalo 🐴 não aparece na narrativa de Homero.

based on the observable, measurable and visible evidence what city, according to the nay sayers, is it then ?

Myths are mostly memories...

troy does not exist. just a legend.

It's not much of a leap to guess what Troy exported. Horses.

genesis chapter 6 . been there , no man did this

Paul in the Bible's New Testament mentions Troy's location twice in Acts 16.

Those are 2 things that once you start believing in , you spend the rest of your life trying to understand.

PARISI AND HELEN UNITED !!

Achilles

It seems overly literal to be so strict in the dating of Homer's stories. Didn't he canonize much earlier legends?

Apostole Paul mention Troy.The angel told him to gross over to Macedonia.He was standing in the side of Troy and gross from there to Neapolis where is the of Calamata is.Read the missionary journey of Paul.

Is it real? I went there. That made it obvious.

They named a condom after his story

This bronze is like gold butter. Its quite different hmm. Real different like magical. PADRO SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA my ancestor was accused of magic metal. HMMMM

The premise of this episode is dodgy to say the least. Hisarlik has been accepted as the site of ancient Troy for at least the last one hundred years, a few alternate sites championed by self-serving skeptics notwithstanding. Too, the trope that Homer's tale could not have reflected anything resembling the actual events as they took place on the ground has been debunked, not in toto of course, but at least in significant part. The narrative of this show -- that if you accept Hisarlik as Troy then you must accept everything in Homer as fact, is rubbish, laughed at by scholars but motivation for producers of a television show attempting to manufacture controversy (designed of course to lure viewers). They really indulge in some serious stupidity -- where are the Trojan royal tombs, etc . . . And most of the discoveries that they imply are quite recent and that they reluctantly allow solidifies Hisarlik's identification as Troy were made decades ago, a truly childish form of manipulation. But then television will never be mistaken for scholarship . . . Cheers!

Amazing all the things the narrator attributes to Homer and he Iliad...Maybe the narrator and the screenwriter should have read the book first.

What if Trojans didn't take horse in Troy could won war Troy would been us today

Sliman find another ancient city, not the Troe. Homer has hide it very well and we are the blind men.

This maybe a good documentary. Helen of troy, is saint helen. Mother of constantine, discoverer of the true cross of jesus. And patron to alot of construction. Besides most of the archeology. Padre crespis collection reveals many of the lost artifacts , pre dated many empires. The artifacts are from many places. But are remnants of before , the more sophisticated ancient empires.Alot of it was greek, egyptian,records. It's alot of biblical, structuring and is revealed to the modern day, with bibles, churches, artifacts and monuments.

Hey guys, I've got this giant horse statue... Do you want it? You can have it for free, it's a peace offering.

Where is the city dump? There always is a dump...

haha. the greek army pours in(documentary shows 3 men). seems legit, after 10 long years with no siege weapons :))

War of Troy tok place in today Albania

The "Experts" weren't Experts, we're they? A Doubting Thomas in every walk of life.

Ilion not Ilios

I stopped watching at the 3rd episode of plaguing ads

Trojans is 🇹🇷💪☝️