Turkey - Troy and Pergamon # 4 & 5

Turkey - Troy & Pergamon # 4 & 5

Now, who doesn't know the story of the Trojan Horse? So, here it is! Well, a replica. It held about 8 men that crept into the city and took over.

 

Troy was occupied by the Romans from 2 B.C. to 10 A.D. The Romans are actually descendants of Troy. A man named Orisius (not 100 % sure of the spelling) built the Trojan horse.

Troy has been around for so many years and has been ruled by several different civilizations including the Persians and the Romans. Troy has numbered the civilizations that have lived here. In Troy IV the date was 1800 BC. So, there were 3 other civilizations that lived in Troy before that time!

In around 1877 a man named Heinrich Schliemann excavated this area and found a treasure trove later called "Priam's Treasure". His wife Helen wore "the Jewels of Helen" for the public. Schliemann appears to have performed 4 excavations in this area uncovering several of the layers of Troy civilizations.

The former name of Troy was "Ilios" where the word Illiad from Homer's work came from.

Here are a few pictures of the layers of excavation of Troy

Troy used to be by the river but, the river moved. So now Troy is 6 miles from the river.

PERGAMON AND THE ANCIENT ASCLEPION MEDICAL CENTER  

This was so fascinating! We had seen at Ephesus the covered marketplace, so to speak, where the street is in the middle lined with pillars then shops on the side. Asclepion was set up the same way but at the end of the "shopping district" was a "medical center".

This medical center was not for anyone with major physical conditions but rather for those who mostly, as I could interpret it, had stress in their lives. The patients were dressed in white.

 

There were baths and an amphitheater.

The most interesting technique for healing was used here. It was a tunnel that the patient would go into. Next to the tunnel was the pleasant sound of running water. There were overhead windows so that the doctors could give the patients encouraging words along their walk through the tunnel. And of course, there was the light of day at the end of the tunnel! 

I can't think of better therapy today for someone who is feeling out of sorts!