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Originally Posted by Eric
While I think about what to do for the current question, I would like to address rickroll's thoughts.
I think the first issue is part and parcel of the nature of the questions and the order they have come in.
As to the second issue
appreciate your response, but it's all circumstantial - it's not "we have evidence this is troy" but rather "we have no evidence proving it's not troy"
goes to the spaghetti space monster fallacy where anything can exist when the burden of proof is upon proving a negative - this is also why we've "found" troy 3 different times - each time we were content with the site and then later we found another site which fit better - would not surprise me in the slightest if another stronger contender is found again in our lifetime when turkey decides to build some shopping mall somewhere
smoking gun for me is greeks and romans were obsessed with that stuff - reading their contemporary works there's constant references to going on pilgrimages to various locations etc etc and troy is not once mentioned despite that the site we call troy was a settled city during that time - it only went into ruins permanently after the roman collapse
if that were troy they would have known