entity · site_troy
Troy
An archaeological site included in the regional chronology and evidence graph.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Possible Trojan War Association
A proposed relationship between archaeological or textual evidence and the later Trojan War tradition.
Why does this record have this property?
Troy was a major fortified western Anatolian settlement and is widely investigated as a possible historical substrate for later Trojan War traditions.
- The Ahhiyawa Texts
supports assignment - The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC
supports assignment
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports entity record
The Ahhiyawa Texts — Gary Beckman, Trevor Bryce, Eric H. Cline (2011)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Troy.
- supports · supports entity record
Poseidon’s Horses: Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean — Amos Nur, Eric H. Cline (2000)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Troy.
Referenced records
- Western Anatolia · entity