The Washington Post, March 1st, 1993
Archaeological findings in the ancient city of Troy in modern-day Turkey lend new plausibility to the account of the Trojan War in Homer's "Iliad," archaeologists said last week. Manfred Korfmann, an archaeologist at the University of Tubingen in Germany, said his recent excavations at Troy have revealed a much larger city than previously believed, including fortifications, palaces and cemeteries. Troy was first excavated by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1871. Since then, many archaeologists have argued that the citadel was too small to have been the Homeric Troy. Korfmann and ...
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