Turkey - Gettin my History on in Troy!

To kill a bit more time until my passport is returned to Istanbul, I started travelling further south from Galipoli towards the ancient ruins of Troy, an amazing spot which existed over 4,000 years ago and was thought up until the 19th century to be just a fairy tale, and did not actually exist. The amazing thing here is that it is layers of cities which have over thousands of years been destroyed and then re-built on top of each other, so Troy I to V was built roughly during the Bronze Age (Troy 1 existed from 3000 to 2600bc, Troy II 2600 to 2250bc, Troy III 2250 to 2100bc, Troy IV 2100 to 1950bc and Troy V from 20th to 19th century BC, Troy VI from 17th to 15th bc, Troy VII 1300 bc to 900bc, Troy VIII from 700 bc and finally Troy IX from 1st centurty bc). One of the shots I have here with all the little white signs on them, shows the layers of some of the ruins and from which era they belonged, it really was beautiuful and again hard to get my head around such history and time ... makes me realise how young white Australia is .. and that our richness of culture comes only in with our Indigenous History, which 'we' dont embrace anyway ... shame shame shame. Anyway! ... some pics above of Troy and one of me inside the Trojan horse replica! The shots of the ruins dont do it justice. Oh and note the red poppies littered throughout the pics ... you see them now and then scattered in the country side, makes sense why we have the red poppy for Anzac Day. They are sooo vibrant and beautiful.