Steep Wilusiya (Age of Bronze)

Twelve hundred years before our era, hundreds of ships set out across the Inner Sea (the Aegean) from Ak'aiwiya (Greece) to avenge to sacking of a holy city on the island of 'Elleniya (Hellenia) and the abduction of a priestess-queen. Warriors besieged a city called Wilusiya (Ilios, or Troy), intending to tear down its great, stone walls, slaughter the men who had attacked their sacred island, and carry off the women and children into slavery for the sake of vengeance. But with weapons of bronze, this was no easy feat. They were forced to resort to a series of subterfuges known to later legend as "the Trojan horse." Readers will discover the true nature of Bronze Age warfare, religion, and society in Greece, the Hittite empire (then called Nashiya), and the conditions after the famous war which led to the rise of the mysterious, historical Sea People.