The Trojan War was the greatest catastrophe of the ancient world. We are told that it devastated Europe and Asia and plunged the known world into a Dark Age that lasted 500 years. This is the ‘Story of Troy’. The truth has never been established – until now! Thirty years of painstaking investigative research has finally resolved this 3,000-year-old mystery. Author and historian Bernard Jones uncovers the evidence piece by piece, separating fact from fiction, and unlocking for us the secrets of the past. Unbelievably, Bernard’s research showed that the Trojan War could not have taken place in the Aegean area, or even in the Mediterranean world. This evidence turns our accepted geography on its head and leads us on a fascinating journey of discovery back to the real world in which the Trojans lived. Here, we discover who the Greeks and the Trojans really were, and the parts they played in Homer’s Bronze Age world.Secret knowledge concealed in the “Iliad” reveals Homer’s work to be a genuine historical record. Yet, only in the corrected Bronze Age environment can it be understood. Deciphering Homer’s coded information becomes the key to finding the location of the Trojan War and the Bronze Age city of Troy itself. Lost histories also tell the whole story of the migrations that took place following the Trojan War and the nations that arose out of the ashes of Troy. The records of these nations independently verify the author’s findings, and they overturn the theory of a ‘Dark Age’. ANCIENT-ORIGINS Review: The Discovery of Troy and its Lost History There comes a timewhen one must question conventional wisdom and that is exactly the approachthat independent researcher and author Bernard Jones has taken. Fascinated bythe entire Trojan Cycle (e.g. the stories involving the Trojan War and theevents that followed it) and coupled with his desire to learn more about thehistory of Britain, Jones makes a bold move and challenges what we know orclaim to know about these stories and events. The result is thirty-five yearsworth of published research: The Discovery of Troy and its Lost History. It has long beenthought, as tradition would have it, that the entire events of the Trojan Wartook place on the shores of Anatolia in the Dardanelles, just outside of theBosphorus. According to Jones and his research, this was not the case. Findinga lack of evidence proving without a doubt that this was indeed where theevents took place and no evidence of a Western migration (Aeneas into WesternItaly), he is able to identify the actual location that inspired both Homer'sand Virgil's epics. Using writtenancient and Medieval written evidence preserving place names, bloodlines andmore, Bernard Jones is able to identify key locations and peoples highlightedin these narratives. Although, whilethe main focus of this research centers around the Trojan War, Jones expandsbeyond that to some of the stories that predate Homer. He ventures into themythologies surrounding Jason and the Argonauts as he attempts to re-identifyhis actual location of the Black Sea and more. But what happened?At some point, these narratives moved Eastward and South, into theMediterranean. The later historians such as Herodotus would later rewrite thesestories and reposition them into the world most familiar to them: the Aegean. By the end of itall, the book opens up to a much larger line of his research which he saves forthe next installment of this series. And that is the voyage of Aeneas, as heflees Troy with the Trojan refugees, looking for a new place to call home. Itwould be Aeneas' bloodline that would lead to the infamous Brutus, founder ofBritain. Bernard Jones haschallenged what we have come to know about these heroic tales and if this issomething that piques your curiosity, be sure to pick up a copy of thispublication. ANCIENT-ORIGINS: 19TH MAY 2019 Review by PetrosKoutoupis (Author and Independent Historical Researcher) ancient-origins.net/book-reviews/discovery-troy-and-its-lost-history-0011930 SmallPress Bookwatch: September 2019 JamesA. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, MidwestBook Review 278Orchard Drive, Oregon, WI 53575 TheDiscovery of Troy and its Lost History BernardJones TrojanHistory Press trojanhistory.com 9781916499218,$32.99, HC, 408pp, amazon.com Synopsis: The Trojan War was the greatest catastrophe of theancient Hellenic world. We are told that it devastated Europe and Asia andplunged the known world into a Dark Age that lasted 500 years. Thirty years of painstaking investigative researchhas finally resolved this 3,000-year-old mystery as author and historianBernard Jones uncovered the evidence, piece by piece, separating fact fromfiction, and unlocking the secrets of the past. Unbelievably, Bernard'sresearch showed that the Trojan War could not have taken place in the Aegeanarea, or even in the Mediterranean world. This evidence turns our acceptedgeography on its head and leads us on a fascinating journey of discovery backto the real