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Wed 09 Sep 2009Researchers find bodies that may date back to Trojan war
ANKARA – Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 BC, the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, according to a leading German professor.
Ernst Pernicka, the University of Tubingen professor of archaeometry who is leading excavations on the site in northwestern Turkey, said yesterday the bodies were found near a defence line within the city built in the late Bronze Age.
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