... he mentions 'the steep wall', and in line 386 the 'great bastions of Ilion'. When looking at the archaeological evidence that remains at the site of Troy (known today as Hissarlik), we find that there are several related problems which make its interpretation and therefore its connection to the world described by Homer in the Iliad difficult. The first problem relates to the history of the site in terms of its habitation. First settled in 3000BCE, evidence from archaeology suggests that there are a total of 50 settlement layers that makeup the mound on which the citadel was built, (These have subsequently been subdivided into nine sections i.e. Troy I to Troy IX for ease of reference). This raises problems in that each successive settlement built upon the remains of the previous, re-using their materials. And in the case of the Romans (who built the settlement known as Troy IX), ...

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