New information on Trojan War

Who knew? Troy was in England.

Although the Iliad was written in ancient Greek, the war was not waged by Greeks and not caused by the abduction of Helen. The real cause was access to tin in Britain, a precious metal which was essential for the production of bronze.

During the second millenium BC, the tales of the greatest war of prehistory were orally transmitted by Sea Peoples migrating from western Europe to the Mediterranean. This is why traces of the war could not be found near Hissarlik in Turkey, the site previously believed to be that of Homer’s Troy.

This work clearly demonstrates that the Iliad, however poetic, is based on real historical events in the Bronze Age.

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