before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one troy it's a story that's been told and retold by poets and actors for thousands of years but is it real did the city of troy actually exist the legendary city of homer's iliad there were plenty of people who believed the lost city of troy was entirely fictional and could never be found but troy proved so alluring that the sheer dedication of the archaeologists hunting for it won out and a site in turkey called hisarlik was finally definitively identified as troy in the NUMBER_TOKENs in this place the ancients believed troy had stood here one said no stone is without a name unfortunately the man responsible for proving this heinrich schliemann also made liberal use of dynamite in his excavations something scientists certainly would not do today and at least so far there's no hard evidence of the existence of the famous trojan horse the idea that the greeks would have in fact built a large wooden horse hidden inside it and had it dragged inside of troy is certainly possible but it kind of strains your credulity a little bit that someone really could have pulled that off do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from watchmojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
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