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==Archaeological history==

==Archaeological history==

Since the early nineteenth century the discovery of a variety of inscriptions had convinced Edward Daniel Clarke and John Martin Cripps that the site of Troy was on the hill of Hissarlik<ref>https://archive.org/details/travelsvariousc00clara</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=R-wKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=John+Martin+Cripps+troy&source=bl&ots=ve-MbeKz7W&sig=RKiZhL3T5AH0_UQOzzckrFiJucE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOpMyCvsfaAhVGZKwKHSIgD78Q6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Martin%20Cripps%20troy&f=false</ref>, about 4.5 km from the entrance to the Dardanelles.  In his dissertation on the topography of the surrounding plain published in Edinburgh in 1822, the Scottish geologist Charles MacLaren had advanced the hypothesis that the position of the Greco-Roman site known as "New Ilium" coincided with the city sung by Homer<ref>https://archive.org/details/plaintroydescri00maclgoog</ref>.

Since the early nineteenth century the discovery of a variety of inscriptions had convinced Edward Daniel Clarke and John Martin Cripps that the site of Troy was on the hill of Hissarlik<ref>https://archive.org/details/travelsvariousc00clara</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=R-wKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=John+Martin+Cripps+troy&source=bl&ots=ve-MbeKz7W&sig=RKiZhL3T5AH0_UQOzzckrFiJucE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOpMyCvsfaAhVGZKwKHSIgD78Q6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Martin%20Cripps%20troy&f=false</ref>, about 4.5 km from the entrance to the Dardanelles.  In his dissertation on the topography of the surrounding plain published in Edinburgh in 1822, the Scottish geologist Charles MacLaren had advanced the hypothesis that the position of the Greco-Roman site known as "New Ilium" coincided with the city sung by Homer<ref>https://archive.org/details/plaintroydescri00maclgoog</ref>.