Wrong headline: "Troy never existed. Homer invented the city." What the dig says: Hisarlik in northwest Turkey is a long-lived Bronze Age city with destruction

Wrong headline: "Troy never existed. Homer invented the city." What the dig says: Hisarlik in northwest Turkey is a long-lived Bronze Age city with destruction layers. Whether one layer is Homer's war is still debated. "No city at all" is not what the dig shows. The Met, Attic lekythos (Achilles a…