Editing Troy (section)

=== Early modern era ===

[[File:Alexandria Troas Thermen.JPG|thumb|left|Alexandria Troas]]

Early modern travellers in the 16th and 17th centuries, including [[Pierre Belon]] and [[Pietro Della Valle]], had mistakenly identified Troy with [[Alexandria Troas]], a ruined Hellenistic town approximately {{convert|20|km|mi}} south of Hisarlık.{{sfn|Schliemann|1881|p=184}} In the late 18th century, [[Jean Baptiste LeChevalier]] identified a location near the village of [[Pınarbaşı, Ezine]], a mound approximately {{convert|5|km|mi}} south of the currently accepted location. Published in his ''Voyage de la Troade'', it was the most commonly proposed location for almost a century.{{sfn|Schliemann|1881|pp=184–191}}

In 1822, the Scottish journalist [[Charles Maclaren]] was the first to identify with confidence the position of the city as it is now known.<ref name="Bibliobazaar">{{cite book |last=MacLaren |first=Charles |year=1822 |title=A Dissertation On the Topography of the Plain of Troy |quote=Including an examination of the opinions of Demetrius, Chevalier, Dr.&nbsp;Clarke, and Major Rennell. |publisher=Bibliobazaar |isbn=978-1-146-73161-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UkkMAAAAYAAJ |access-date=28 December 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Schliemann|1881|p=189}} The first excavations at the site were trenches by British civil engineer John Brunton in 1855.<ref>[https://ub01.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10900/85937/StTr19_Pavel.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316163112/https://ub01.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10900/85937/StTr19_Pavel.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|date=16 March 2023}}Pavel, Cătălin, "Recording the Excavations in Troy, 1855–2010", Studia Troica, 19, pp. 255-283, 2011</ref>