Description
This gripping story shows why the legend of Troy forms the bedrock of Western culture and why its past is a paradigm of human history. Wood’s meticulous scholarly sleuthing yields fascinating evidence concerning the continuity and development of human civilization within the Aegean and Asia Minor. With its 50 feet of debris as a consequence of constant rebuilding, human destruction, earthquake, and abandonment, the mound of Troy accommodates the beginnings and ends of new races and civilizations.
This edition features a new preface, a new final chapter, and an addendum to the bibliography that take account of dramatic new developments within the seek for Troy with the rediscovery, in Moscow, of the so-known as Jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the web site of Troy, which started in 1988 and is yielding new evidence concerning the historical city.