Andis Kaulins Scribbled:

H4R4X, The location of Troy at Hisarlik as well as the date to be applied to the sack of Troy is highly disputed. I for one am convinced that Hisarlik was not ancient Troy, e.g. because the ancients wrote that there were underground springs near Troy, but none such has been found at Hisarlik. So Troy is elsewhere - and - as far as the legend of Helen of Troy is concerned - the "sack" of Troy surely took place in another era than the one currently assigned to it by the historians. For one view of more "conventional" dating of Troy and Knossos (Crete, where the Phaistos Disc was found) take a look at http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/... As you can see, even according to a more conventional approach, Troy and Minoan Civilization are not that far separated in time. The hypothesis of my article is that the technology of the Phaistos Disc was imported from Elam via Egypt. This was the beginning of writing in the Western world. When did this happen? As I write in my article, this occurred in very much the same era in which Helen of Troy lived. Andis Andis Kaulins, author of the article in question

Andis Kaulins Scribbled:

H4R4X, The location of Troy at Hisarlik as well as the date to be applied to the sack of Troy is highly disputed. I for one am convinced that Hisarlik was not ancient Troy, e.g. because the ancients wrote that there were underground springs near Troy, but none such has been found at Hisarlik. So Troy is elsewhere - and - as far as the legend of Helend of Troy is concerned - the "sack" of Troy surely took place in another era than the one currently assigned to it by the historians. For one view of more "conventional" dating of Troy and Knossos (Crete, where the Phaistos Disc was found) take a look at http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/... As you can see, even according to a more conventional approach, Troy and Minoan Civilization are not that far separated in time. The hypothesis of my article is that the technology of the Phaistos Disc was imported from Elam via Egypt. This was the beginning of writing in the Western world. When did this happen? As I write in my article, this occurred in very much the same era in which Helen of Troy lived. Andis Andis Kaulins, author of the article in question

H4R4X Scribbled:

I read this but i still don't understand. What does Troy have to do with Elam and the Phaistos disc? Can someone please summarize this book in simple English? :P its interesting but too confusing for me :D