TROY | The Ancient City Destroyed in the Trojan War

Exploring the ancient city of Troy in western Turkey, first settled more than 5,000 years ago and the site of the Trojan War in around 1,200 BC.

Music during the video (in order):

"Djinn" by Francis Preve
&
"Turkish Coffee" by HATAMITSUNAMI

Gabriel is a traveler, outdoors enthusiast and travel writer who has been adventuring around the world since his first trip to Europe in the summer of 1990 when he was 18 years old. He is author of "Following My Thumb", "Gabe's Guide to Budget Travel" and several other books.

[GabrielTravelerVideos]

It's kind of weird for me to watch this video back, because my hair is so long. 😁You'll see what I mean in the next video.

[sezmwji]

I am very grateful to you for sharing the tour of Troy. It is fascinating! I wish you a full recovery from the cold.

[lm_gio]

As far as mythogy goes, you are correct, Ellin (pronounced "Elleen", not "Helen") was supposed to be the primogenitor of Greeks, and is the Greek equivalent of Shem (son of Noah), the son of Deukalion and Pyra (equivalents of Noah and his wife) who survived the flood sent by Zeus to cleanse humanity (yeah, religions need copyright rules asap, right?). But as far as etymology goes, Hellas is a derivation of "sellas" which in ancient Greek is a word for light, so "Hellas" meaning is "land of (abundant) light", which to be fair is a prety accurate description of the place. To this very day, the "northern lights" is called "northern sellas" in Greece. Just nitpicking here, hope you found that interesting

[dextardextar]

It's crazy how troy was rediscovered by some dude who basically read the ancient books and figured out where it was in the late 1800's.

[marpap]

Congratulations Gabriel for knowing ancient Greek history so well.😊
Even Greeks like i am don't remember almost anything!😮

[lowell]

Have you checked out the ancient city of Ephesus? It was very cold the day I was there, I went with a historian and it was fasinating. Day trip from Izmir. Solo trip to Greece for the 8th or 9th time and I thought - so close to Turkey, why not? Loved Turkey, the food I could never become tired of! I could eat Adana kebobs for life.

[ValentinaMitchell]

Thank you Gabriel, what a sight to see and it really pieces the history together! It’s really neat to also see the images of possibly what it once looked like. I’m glad they included those on the info boxes.

[TimL_]

This place is surreal. I was there just last year and I want to go again.

[JennyGunner-gelz]

Wow!! Just wonderful, oh all those layers of history in one place, absolutely amazing. Thanking you for taking the time to show Troy. Hope you’re feeling much better.❤❤

[StartLivingNow]

🙂❤👍Thank Gabriel Another Awesome Adventure Safe Travels 🙂❤👍

[BarbaraForrester]

Excellent video as always. I hope your cold is getting better!

[roberth]

very interesting to see all of the layers of Ancient Troy. Loved your intro song btw! Turkiye is chock full of antiquities of bygone eras, it's just mindblowing that as old as Troy is, also in the same country you have Gobekli Tepe which is said to be 12, 000 years old or more.

[chrisiversen]

Thank you for sharing. Very interesting to see 🙂

[LianaPoudel]

i really love all your summer shirts, its cool gabriel! take care always from nepal/philippines family and god bless you🥰

[MauriceBlondé]

I see Samothraki island is just ahead ... it is a very small island and there is little tourism... however... there where incredible goa partys on that little magical piece of this earth... there are some ancient ruins and the spot where the party was at.... that was an ancient offering place... you should consider paying a visit... it is beautifull....just some greek villages...verry chill... no tourism at all... have a nice one Gabriel

[elizabethcraig]

Gabriel makes ancient history interesting as opposed to when I was in school and hated it. I would literally nodaway and never learned it period. Thanks for the tour.😊

[konstantinosstamatopoulos]

If I remember the mythology correctly, Helen was the wife of Menelaos king of Sparta and the Hellenic expedition included the kings of city-states Agamemnon, Odysseus, achilles etc. Agamemnon of mikines was the richest and leader of the Greeks, achilles was younger and the strongest and Odysseus the smartest who thought the Trojan horse story. The Iliad does not describe all the story but it is a tragedy starting with a quarrel between Agamemnon and achilles and ending when achilles kills and gives the body of hector to his father Priam king of Troy.

[sumostorms]

Thanks Gabe 👍 interesting to see how troy looks like today. I visited the site in 1989 and nothing from your video was present except for the ruins 😄 no barrier or entrance whatsoever. They were still excavating and restoring, but we could just roam the area freely. In that year I visited several ancient sites in Greece and Turkey. If you haven’t visited yet I recommend the site of Mycenae. All these sites are historically connected. Cheers 🍻

[wildwisdomjourneys]

When I was there years ago It was possible to go inside and up to the top of the Trojan Horse and look out of one of the openings. So it may just be under restoration. Hopefully access hasn’t changed.

[junefirst]

A lots of war in olden days! Thanks for th history Gabriel!