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Archaeological Evidence of the Trojan War Part 3 🏺 | In the destruction layer of Troy VIIa, archaeologists found Late Bronze Age arrowheads from multiple weapons traditions. Some were Aegean in type. One was Hittite. Another had eastern Mediterranean parallels. Several were recovered near the citadel walls and gates, exactly where weapons would concentrate during an attack. Others were found where they may have been preserved as trophies, offerings, or valuable foreign objects. None of this proves that Homer’s Greeks fired them. But it does show that Troy was connected to the Mycenaean, Anatolian, and eastern Mediterranean worlds, and that weapons were present in the city when it was violently destroyed. Sources: Pieniążek, Magda. "Trojan Archery: Arrowheads from the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC." In From Past to Present: Studies in Memory of Manfred O. Korfmann, edited by Stephan W. E. Blum, Turan Efe, Tobias L. Kienlin, and Ernst Pernicka, 33–43. Studia Troica Monographien 11. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, 2020. Blegen, Carl W., et al. Troy IV: Settlements VIIa, VIIb and VIII. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958. Korfmann, Manfred. "Was There a Trojan War?" Archaeology 57, no. 3 (May/June 2004). Korfmann, Manfred. "Troia: Ausgrabungen 1995." Studia Troica 6 (1996): 1–63. Korfmann, Manfred. "Troia: Ausgrabungen 1994." Studia Troica 5 (1995): 1–40. Rutter, Jeremy B. "Lesson 27: Troy VII and the Historicity of the Trojan War." Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology. Dartmouth College. Accessed 2026. Hammer, Joshua. "In Search of Troy." Smithsonian Magazine, March 2022. Symonds, Matthew. "Trojan War: The Archaeology of a Story." The Past, March 23, 2018. #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #greekmythology #theodyssey #historytok