Lower city area300,000 m^2
80,645King-size beds
1,538American houses
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Troy
The legendary city of Homer's Iliad, layered with 4,000 years of history/Archaeology & Antiquities
Troy (Hisarlik) is an archaeological site in northwestern Turkey that contains the remains of at least nine distinct cities built on top of one another over roughly 4,000 years, from about 3000 BC to 500 AD. The site was famously excavated by Heinrich Schliemann beginning in 1870. Troy VII is widely considered the most likely candidate for Homer's Troy. The citadel mound covers about 2 hectares, while the surrounding lower city extended to roughly 30 hectares. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998.
Measurements
Citadel mound area20,000 m^2
11.6 billionthsAlaskas
4.3 millionCredit cards
80,000Monopoly boards
Fortification wall length (Troy VI)550 m
1.3 hundredthsMarathon distances
50London double-decker buses
Excavation depth (layers)16 m
6.7 trillionElectron wavelengths
26.7Dachshunds
Oldest settlement age158 billion s
16.5 millionTitanic sinkings
263 millionCar washes
317 millionLight-minutes to Earth
Founded circa 3000 BC
Wall height (Troy VI)9 m
900 billionHard X-ray wavelengths
50Bananas