The powerful walls of the "highly firm" Troy rose above the shores of the Hellespont, when more than two thousand years remained before the foundation of Rome. Everything in this city was the most. The Trojan War broke out here because of the most beautiful woman Oikumena, and the greatest poet of mankind Homer sang the bravest warriors who fought in her. The Trojans were defeated, but life in the city did not stop. Here the Greeks founded one of their many colonies. Xerxes and Alexander the Great came here, Roman emperors visited here. Troy was discovered by the most romantic, most controversial, most scandalously famous archaeologist in the world. And today the most popular excavations in the world are held here. Without the Trojan War, this amazing city would equally attract the attention of archaeologists, historians and tourists. To tell the story of Troy from the day of its foundation to the present - this task was set by the authors of this book - writers, historians and archaeologists working under the pseudonym Oleg Ivik.