Images
There are three known surviving classical depictions of the Trojan horse. The earliest is on a fibula brooch dated about 700 BC. The other two are on relief pithos vases from the adjoining Grecian islands Mykonos and Tinos, both usually dated between 675 and 650 BC, the one from Mykonos being known as the Mykonos Vase. Historian Michael Wood, however, dates the Mykonos Vase to the 8th century BC, some 500 years after the supposed time of the war, but before the written accounts attributed by tradition to Homer. Wood concludes from that evidence that the story of the Trojan Horse was in existence prior to the writing of those accounts.
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At the Istanbul Archaeological Museum in Istanbul, Turkey
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At the Schliemann Museum in Ankershagen, Germany
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From the movie Troy
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A modern interpretation at the Troja-Ausstellung (Troy Fair) in Stuttgart, Germany (May 2001)
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