The ruins of the so-called Troy site at Hisarlik are back in the news, now that excavation has been renewed there and has yielded new archaeo-logical evidence. Schliemann's crude digging destroyed much that was important, but he unarguably brought the buried past to light, and he was succeeded by the more, scholarly William Dorpfeld who had the backing of the German Kaiser., The discovery of Minoan Crete brought about a huge rethinking and rewriting of ancient Greek history, then came the discovery of the Hittite. empire, and since then a debate has raged intermittently as to whether Homer's Troy was mythical or historical. Michael Wood is not a classical scholar, but he appears to present the evidence fairly and it seems probable that the destruction of Troy was the last great expedition of Mycenaean Greece before it vanished from the stage of history about a millennium before Christ.