Ancient 2,800-year-old market discovered at Troy as archaeologists uncover what happened to city after Trojan War

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An ancient market dating back 2,800 years has been discovered at Troy, with archaeologists uncovering what happened to the city after the end of the Trojan War.Archaeologists working at the legendary site have unearthed what is believed to be the city's oldest public gathering space.The agora was discovered during ongoing excavations on Hisarlik hill in north-western Turkey, conducted jointly by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University.The find, revealed earlier this week, upends the long-accepted view that Troy was left deserted for several hundred years following its destruction by the Greeks, traditionally placed at 1184 BC.Scholars had previously maintained that the site remained uninhabited until Aeolian Greeks settled there during the eighth century BC, establishing the city they called Ilion.The dig programme, which began in 2014, builds on more than 150 years of archaeological inquiry at the site.German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann...

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