Troy, the palatial city of prehistory, sacked by the Greeks
through trickery and a fabled wooden horse, will be excavated anew beginning in
2013 by a cross-disciplinary team of archaeologists and other scientists, it was
announced today (Monday, Oct. 15).
The new expedition will be led by University of
Wisconsin-Madison classics Professor William Aylward, an archaeologist with
long experience digging in the ruins of classical antiquity, including Troy
itself. The new international project at Troy, to be conducted under the
auspices of and in cooperation with Turkey's Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University,
will begin a series of summer-time expeditions beginning in 2013.