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Archaeological and textual evidence from the Hittite capital of Hattusa confirms that "Troy" was a real place with a distinct Anatolian identity:
From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background For centuries, we viewed Homer's Iliad as the purely Greek origin of Western literature. However, recent scholarship suggests that the roots of the Trojan legend are deeply embedded in the Anatolian soil of the Late Bronze Age.
Hittite archives reveal that the Greeks (referred to as the ) were active in western Anatolia long before the "official" Greek Dark Ages. The story we know as the Trojan War likely began as a native Anatolian narrative that the Greeks later adopted and reshaped. The Bronze Age Reality: Wilusa and Ahhiyawa
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