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However, it is also true that the details have been heavily dramatized and the kidnapping of Helen was almost certainly not the cause of the war. Based on documents from other civilizations at that time, experts speculate that the cause was either political or “accidental,” which means that Troy was simply one city out of many that was the victim of Greek raids. <ref>Finley, 5-6.</ref>

Troy's best-known candidate is a northwest Turkey site called Hisarlik, discovered in 1970 by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. There are nine levels of settlements at Hisarlik, and each level is divided into sublevels. Early archaeologists believed that level VIIa or VIIb was the mythical Troy, but the dating of pottery shards has ruled those levels out. Today level VIh is the most likely candidate, as it appears to have been destroyed at some time in the late 13th century BCE <ref>Bryce, 185.</ref>