 | James G. Brianas President/Professor Achilles Foundation achillesfoundation.org 
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Abstract: The authenticity and dating of the Trojan War (while some scholars and other individuals question that there ever was a Trojan War) have been of great controversy. This author’s published book, The Landmark Achilles, clearly documents the numerous wars and hostilities occurring in the Late Bronze Age, specifically the 220-year period 1430 to 1210 BC, as identified in The Ahhiyawa Texts. From that and writings of other archaeologists and scholars, there clearly were battles at Troy with the dating of Homer’s war principally narrowed to 1260 to 1180 BC. Greek scientists have through their published works shown 1218 BC as the ending of that war. This is based on eclipses they identified in both THE ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY and the NASA Catalog. With The Ahhiyawa Texts identifying a war at Troy with the Greeks ca. 1250 BC, initiated by the Hittites, as well as hostilities over some two centuries by Greek and Anatolian kingdoms, analysis of the leadership of these centralized economies and the dynamic conditions of the Eastern Mediterranean at that time lead to the conclusion that the Greeks sought revenge against the warring Hittites and their Trojan allies, revenge targeted during a period of Hittite weakness. This is discussed in The Landmark Achilles. The year 1228 BC as the beginning of the war with 1218 BC as its ending fits well with that timetable.
