Welcome to the Interactive Map of the ancient city of Troy The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey.

Welcome to the Interactive Map of the Ancient City of Troy! Come explore the long archaeological history of Troy!

On the interactive map on the home page, the levels are represented by different colors. Click on the layers to glimpse various archaeological features belonging to each time period and …

The original Troy was a very small city, measuring only around 280 feet by 310 feet. However, it was surrounded by a very sturdy defensive wall, which included gates and towers.

For Greeks who lived in or travelled to Troy, the imposing ruins of Bronze Age Troy provided a romantic connection to the past.

Although the center of the citadel of Troy VI was destroyed by later Hellenistic and Roman building campaigns, it has still been possible to reconstruct how the settlement may have looked.

Troy II became a much different settlement than its predecessor, as the city gradually developed into a major commercial center with trade contacts extending from the Aegean to central Asia.

Archaeologists have found arrowheads and other military paraphernalia within Troy VIIa’s destruction layer. And perhaps most telling, there are even unburied human remains strewn …

Jul 10, 2025 · The team is currently investigating layers known as Troy 6 and Troy 7, which date to the thirteenth century b.c. during the Late Bronze Age, the purported era of the Trojan War.

Their language, written in cuneiform script on clay tablets, was recovered and deciphered in the first decades of the twentieth century, but scholars are still wrestling with the problem of …