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Special Envoy to Hissarlik Hill (Turkey)
Homer warned us.
Now, as in epic times, an ox-dehorning wind continually sweeps the hill of Hissarlik.
For the experts, the microclimate contributes to attest that the walls exhumed on this height controlling the access to the strait of Dardanelles are indeed those of ancient Troy.
Excavations carried out over the past century and a half have certainly revealed no written trace of the mythical war between Greeks and Trojans, but it is now accepted that this site coincides with the important urban center depicted in
the Iliad.
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Which was far from…
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