SECOND MILLENNIUM B.C.
The interior of Asia Minor was at this epoch under the influence of the Hittites, whose ancient capital Khat tushash (Boghaz Keui), flourished in the second half of the 2nd millennium. Many monuments of Hittite origin are spread over the whole of the peninsula, and as a whole, with one or two ex ceptions, belong to a very homogeneous art, which is sober, if somewhat crude, with traces of oriental as well as of Aegean influence.
The sixth city of Troy which, as Dorpfeld recog nized, is the Troy of Homer, was destroyed about I 180. The ruins of Troy VI. amount to very little, for when the Romans built on the site, they razed the top of the hill to obtain a large oval base for their structures and destroyed all the buildings of the VI., VII., and VIII. cities; nothing remains of Troy VI. but a few foundation-elements on the slopes of the hill below the Roman levelling. A part of the rampart four or five metres thick is a strong fortification flanked by towers, with three gates of a more modern type than in the earlier buildings. At Troy, as at Tiryns and Mycenae, no enemy could reach the gates without exposure on a portion of the rampart, which made defence easier. What pillage and fire left unhurt was destroyed by the Romans, and of the Troy of Homer there remains little to-day save memory.
