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Troy VI to IX
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The eastern gate of Troy VI/VII. Photo Marco Prins. The eastern gate of Troy VI/VII. Troy VI lasted from c.1700 until c.1250 and can certainly be identified with the Wiluša mentioned in contemporary Hittite sources, and can pobably be identified with the city of the Trojan war. Troy VI was destroyed by an earthquake, but rebuilt. Troy VII lasted until c.1000.
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The eastern gate of Troy VI/VII. Photo Marco Prins. The eastern gate of Troy VI/VII.
The eastern wall of Troy VI/VII. Photo Marco Prins. The eastern wall of Troy VI/VII.
The southeastern tower of Troy VI/VII. Photo Marco Prins. The southeastern tower of Troy VI/VII.
The southern gate of Troy VI/VII. Photo Marco Prins. The southern gate of Troy VI/VII.
A house in Troy VI. Photo Marco Prins. A house in Troy VI. 
The southwestern wall of Troy VIII. Photo Marco Prins. The southwestern wall of Troy VIII, which existed between 700 and 85 BCE.
The Sun god on a relief from Troy. Altes Museum, Berlin (Germany). Photo Jona Lendering. A Greek relief (a metope from the temple of Athena) showing the sun god, now in the Altes Museum, in Berlin. This piece of art, made after c.390 BCE, was one of the first discoveries by Heinrich Schliemann.
The Odeum of Troy IX. Photo Marco Prins. The Odeum of Troy IX, built by the Roman emperor Augustus at the beginning the first century CE.

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