Troy (Ancient City) Trivia Questions

Excavations at Hisarlik since the 1870s have confirmed Troy's existence as a Bronze Age city in northwestern Anatolia, modern Turkey.

Troy is a real archaeological site in Turkey. Homer's Iliad used the city as a setting, but the city itself existed long before the epic.

Troy is in northwestern Anatolia (modern Turkey), not on Crete. Crete was home to the Minoan civilization, not the Trojans.

Troy was a modest Bronze Age city; estimates suggest a peak population of about 5,000–10,000, far smaller than empires like Hattusa.

In Greek mythology, Achilles was born in Phthia, Thessaly (Greece). He fought at Troy but was not a native of the city.

Frank Calvert conducted the first excavation at Hisarlik (Troy) in 1865. Heinrich Schliemann began larger-scale excavations in 1871, but Calvert preceded him.

Archaeologists identified nine main phases (Troy I–IX) from the Early Bronze Age to Roman times, each built atop the previous ruins.

The Roman city on the same site was called Ilium; it became a cultural center that claimed ancestry from the Trojans of Greek myth.