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- <text id=93TT1116>
- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: Troy's Legend Grows
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 22
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Troy's Legend Grows
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Fresh finds in Turkey have the dimensions to be Homer's grand
- city
- </p>
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- <p> Heinrich Schliemann's "Discovery" 120 years ago of mythic Troy
- has always gone into the close-but-no-cigar category. Excavating
- on Turkey's Aegean coast, the amateur German archaeologist unearthed
- some ancient ruins and declared them to be all that was left
- of the Troy celebrated in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. But the
- remains always seemed, even to Schliemann, a bit puny for so
- outsize a legend.
- </p>
- <p> Last week the archaeologist got some impressive support. An
- international team of researchers announced that a new magnetic
- survey has revealed a 14-ft.-thick clay wall about 1,300 ft.
- south of Schliemann's dig. His find now appears to be the dwelling
- site of the city's rulers; the still buried wall probably marks
- Troy's true boundaries and might be the very wall that Achilles
- reputedly chased Hector around three times. Archaeologists intend
- to excavate the barrier, which lies 6 to 10 ft. underground,
- this summer. Still missing are any signs of the Trojan horse.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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