Academia all goes with the flow. Troy in Turkey is the common myth. But the Iliad and the Odyssey clearly show that the Trojan War was very cold and rainy, with snow and soldiers freezing when they dared enter into the river. Every reference to the sea was that it was 'wine-dark'. In Turkey, it is always warm or hot and almost always sunny with a very lovely blue Mediterranean Sea in which bathers swim comfortably. Additionally, in Turkey the sky is clear and blue, but sunrises in the Iliad and the Odyssey always refer to sunrise as a very descriptive, 'Rosy-Fingered Dawn', a perfect description of arctic weather observations. Turkey did have a walled city which was excavated by an amateur archeologist and declared to be Troy. The jewels he dug up made him famous and made Turkish Troy the official belief at that time. But the books paint such a different picture that two great writers sought other locations where the weather and topography better suited the story. I own both books. The most likely of the two was the Baltic book, but there is a delightful alternative placing Troy outside of present day Cambridge, UK! Well argued but the Baltic looks more likely. For a peek at tis... https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/08/10/there-is-a-theory-that-the-city-of-troy-was-located-in-england-and-the-trojan-war-was-fought-between-groups-of-celts/