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Rena Effendi

Istanbul-based Rena Effendi previously photographed the Can Hasan archaeological site for Smithsonian.

Detail from a 4th-century B.C. Persian sarcophagus, thought to depict a Greek-Anatolian battle scene, found in a tomb near Troy.

In Search of Troy

It wasn’t just a legend. Archaeologists are getting to the bottom of the city celebrated by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago