Troy – the legendary city that’s said to be the scene of the Trojan War, immortalised by Homer is his epic poem, the Iliad. A war that’s said to have lasted ten years and ended by perhaps the most famous trick in history – the Trojan Horse.

But do ancient ruins on the Western shores of modern-day Turkey show that Troy once really existed? Can archaeological finds at the site provide evidence for a decade’s-long war? And will a scientific experiment show how Greek soldiers hid in the belly of a wooden horse – and then captured the city.

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