The Troy Project

   Summary of Prof.F.Kolb´s charges (from the various interviews)

   Initial Response by Prof.M.Korfmann and Prof.Ch.B.Rose (July 27, 2001)
           Recent terrestrial photographs of the disputed lower city Troia VI / VII 
           Recent aerial photographs of the same

    Letters to the Editor of "THE TIMES"  by two English scholars (August 20, 2001)

    "Winning Helen - myth, history or invention?" by Uwe Walter in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - English Edition" (July 26, 2001)

    Interview by Dr.Sigrid Löffler with Prof.Korfmann in the journal : "Literaturen" (Oct.2001) :  " I take Homer the way I take Edgar
    Wallace"

    "Wilusa (Wilios/Troia) - Center of a Hittite Confederate in Northwest Asia Minor" updated version of an essay by Prof. J.Latacz
      (Nov.21, 2001) 
   
    Editor´s note: The essay without figures is stored in PDF-format (180 KB). Reading will require Acrobat Reader as plug-in. The version    
    with figures has 560 KB.

     It is the strong intention of the two main persons under attack, Prof.M.Korfmann and Prof.J.Latacz, to close the media debate with their statements cited and available above. Until the Tübingen-Debate in February 2002 they intend to return to more productive tasks. Representatives of the media are urged to respect this intention.