
Troy: everything you wanted to know
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The Prime Era of Troy
i'll look at troy in its own terms, but at the sight of hisalic in its own translator. The geo political situation is, you have a major kingdom based much further east, near anchora,. A place called hatusas we call it, the hittite empire also speaking and writing a an indo european language which is like greek. And they preserved on clay as. Indeed, the greeks administrative records. In their term texts written in cuniform wedge shaped letters, the er decipherers have found a name, wilusa. Now, wilusa has sounded to some experts a bit like welion, because ancient greek el
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