According to the story The Aeneid the destruction of Troy was due to the Greeks entering Troy by giving them a giant wooden horse. The giant wooden horse was full of soldiers, and there were soldiers waiting not too far off as reinforcements to overwhelm the People of Troy. Aeneas forms a last stand with the remaining soldiers to defend Troy, however in the end he ends up retreating because he wanted to protect his father and wife. However none of this may be necessarily true because it is questionable withier Troy was real or fiction. In 1868 an archeologist named Hienrich Schlieman discovered Troy looking for geographical clues that led him to northwest Turkey he was believed that he had found the city of Troy the city had large walls that was evidenced to be destroyed by a natural disaster there is also some evidence of a fire. The site was called Troia where the city is now called Truva by the Turkish Government. In 1988 Manfred Kauffman discovered arrowheads dated to 12th century BC in Troy he also reported to find a large ditch outside the city which most likely served as a defense to the city. It is still unknown how Troy was destroyed though most archeologists believe that and earthquake destroyed Troy.
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