Trojan Mess

In the 19th century German businessman turned archeologist Heinrich Schliemann spent a lot of money and effort following his intuition on where the ruins of Homeric city of Troy must lie. Once he found the site, his skills as an archeologist and preserver of what he had found were less impressive.

Today most of what you see at Troy is a series of walls, some of which are the fortifications that may have kept the fabled warriors Odysseus and Agamemnon at bay for so long over 3000 years ago. Troy was built and rebuilt on the same site for over a millenium; unfortunately Schliemann thoroughly mixed together the layers of the various incarnations of Troy, leaving a mess that archeologists are still working to unravel.

There aren't any neat ruins besides the fragments of various historic walls often labeled with Roman numerals indicating which incarnation of Troy they belong to. The only thing vaguely Trojany in the place is a silly brown "Trojan Horse" (with big windows in its sides for extra stealthiness) near the site's entrance built in the 1960's.

For more pictures of walls, Roman numerals, signs, and stray cats....oh, you get the idea.