This city was lost until 1871 when Heinrich Schliemann (an Austrian archeologist) discovered it. At that time the poetry of Homer was assumed to be based on legend not fact. Schliemann used Homer's Iliad to locate the site and with permission from the Ottoman government excavated it at his own expense. He uncovered four ancient superimposed towns (nine have been found since). He also found the treasures of Troy II which he removed from the site and gave to Germany. The ethics of the removal are still being debated today in archeological circles. Most of treasures disappeared during the second world war. According to Homer's Iliad this is the town of Ilium where the battle took place during the 1200's BC with Agamemnon, Achilles, Odysseus, Patroclus and Nestor on the Greek side and Priam, Hector, and Paris on the Trojan side. This 10 year war was started when Paris kidnapped Helen from her husband Menelaus. The war finally ended when the Greeks invaded Troy using the famous wooden horse. The inhabitants of Troy can be dated to the Bronze Age 3000-1800 BC (Troy I through Troy V). Of the settlement's nine levels, Troy VI is the city presumed to be Homer's Troy (Truva), which was engaged in the Trojan War. The last people to reside in Troy were Turkish soldiers in 1300 AD until Schliemann happened upon the site in the 19th century.