I..E. : Troy

Prof. Calvert Watkins, a linguist at Harvard, was examining some dry documents in an extinct language of ancient Anatolia when he came upon a string of words that filled him with excitement. Translated, the words said: When they came from steep Wilusa. . . .

At a Symposium held at Bryn Mawr College in October 1984 linguist Prof. Watkins suggests that "Steep Wilusa", a city mentioned on a Hittite tablet which was written in Luvian, could well be "Steep llios" of the lliad. "Priya-Muwas" sounds very much like "Priamos". The Luvian "Aleksandus" may well be "Aleksandros", the second name of the Trojan prince Paris.

To read more, See the LINE OF SONG PROVIDES A CLUE ON ANCIENT TROY By COLIN CAMPBELL (Special to The New York Times); National Desk, January 28, 1985.