THE TOMBS

On the hills which surround the plain of Troy some unusual hills attract many visitors attention. Those hills are shown on some old maps as the graves of Achilles, Patroclus or Ajax. But it can not be proven today whether they were the graves of the Greek heroes or not. It is believed that they are from Hellenistic times but even so there might be earlier graves underneath. It is also possible that the tombs might have been built during the time of Alexander the Great symbolically in the name of these Greek heroes as grave monuments. As a matter of fact, after the Trojan War Anatolia became a Greek land. The death place of the important Greek warriors like Achilles, Patroclus and Ajax was accepted as a holy place.