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TIL people still believe ancient Troy existed.
Do you live in the pre-Schliemann era?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad
Nope, its not because Schliemann was a Homer otaku that his discoveries were what he said they were. Guy had a worldview and made the evidence fit it.
There are many cities that were looted and rebuilt several times in the ancient world while having large walls.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Hisarlik
"...Hisarlık has been largely acknowledged by scholars as the site of historical Troy [...]".
Feel free to read those scholars if you want to be unimpressed. I am unconvinced by the faint evidence.
I'll grant them it's more historical than Atlantis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy
We have texts from the period (15th to 12thc. BCE) that discuss a city that the Hittites called Wilusa (Ilios) in a region they called Taruisa (the Troad), and the beef that the Achaeans had with them about it for centuries. The city that we found shows rebuilding something that in the Greek and Roman period that they also named Ilion / Ilium. It's a well established fact that something with that name existed and that it was the object of a centuries long conflict with Greece.
It's after the end of the Roman period, when it disappeared, that people into the medieval period started assuming it was never real. Until it was actually found. Don't be a child.