User:Botterweg14/Troy VI/VII
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Late Bronze Age Troy is a archaeological layer at Troy dating to the Late Bronze Age. It was a thriving coastal city consisting of a steep fortified citadel and a sprawling lower town below it. It had a considerable population and extensive foreign contacts, including with Mycenaean Greece. It is believed to correspond to the city of Wilusa known from Hittite texts. Troy VI-VII is notable for its potential connection to Greek myths of the Trojan War. Aspects of its architecture are consistent with the Iliad's description of mythic Troy, and several of its sublayers (VIh and VIIa) show potential signs of violent destruction. Thus, these sublayers are among the candidates for a potential historical setting of those myths.[1]
Troy VI and VII were given separate labels by early excavators, but current scholarly consensus holds that the first several sublayers of Troy VII were in fact continuations of the earlier city. As a result, some researchers have suggested relabeling Troy VIIa as Troy VIi and Troy VIIb1 as Troy VIj, with Troy VII beginning at the sublayer standardly known as VIIb2. Although the substance of this proposal is widely accepted, the original labels are still generally used in order to avoid confusion.[2][3][4]