Established in 1996 and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998, the park is located near the village of Tevfikiye in the Çanakkale Province. It spans several square kilometers and includes both the ancient mound of Hisarlık—identified as the site of Troy—and a surrounding cultural landscape. The park was established to integrate archaeological preservation with heritage education, tourism, and local engagement. Ongoing excavations, conservation projects, and public infrastructure, including a modern museum, contribute to its role as both a scientific site and public monument. The park is also a focal point for historical memory and national identity, particularly due to the enduring influence of the Homeric epics.

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Archaeological Site of Troy
The archaeological site of ancient Troy on Hisarlık is the most important Bronze and Iron Age settlement mound in northwestern Anatolia, preserving the remains of at least nine major stratified settlement phases—Troy 0 through Troy IX—spanning from circa 3000 BCE to the Roman Imperial period. First excavated by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s and subsequently investigated by Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Carl Blegen, and Manfred Korfmann, the site provides a continuous archaeological record of urban development, fortification architecture, domestic life, and cross-cultural exchange. Visitors today can observe exposed portions of Cyclopean stone walls, towers, gates, and building foundations, with interpretive signage identifying layers corresponding to different chronological periods.

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Troy Museum
Inaugurated in 2018, the Troy Museum is located just outside the archaeological zone and houses over 2,000 artifacts from the site and its surrounding region. The museum’s modern architectural design is inspired by the stratigraphy of the site and provides a comprehensive chronological narrative from prehistoric layers to the Roman and Byzantine periods. Its collections include ceramics, tools, inscriptions, figurines, metalwork, and contextual displays relating to Homeric tradition, Hittite diplomacy, and Anatolian archaeology.

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Trojan Horse Exhibit
A large-scale wooden reconstruction of the Trojan Horse is installed near the Hisarlık mound entrance. The modern wooden replica of the Trojan Horse was created in 1975 by the Turkish architect İzzet Senemoğlu. Though not an archaeological artifact, it functions as a symbolic representation of Homeric myth and cultural memory. There are windows on both of them, offering an overview of the site. The model of the Trojan Horse, 12.5 meters high, was built of 25 cubic meters of pinewood, brought from the Kaz Mountain. Designed for visitors to explore from within, the structure serves an educational and experiential role, especially for general audiences unfamiliar with the scholarly distinctions between mythology and archaeology. By 2023 CE, the structure had deteriorated beyond repair. Between 2023 and 2024, it was completely dismantled and fully restored through a comprehensive reconstruction effort.

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Pithos Garden
The "pithos garden" is one of the several an open air lapidarium in the Troy Historical Park. It displays a collection of pithoi (storage jars), terracotta pipes, and grain-grinding stones among other things. Pithoi are vat-like storage contaners appear in the Mediterranean and Near East already in the Neolithic period among with the earliest pottery. They served primarily as a means to keep stuff cool, store olive oil, wine,and grain, but they also functioned as transport containers in maritime commerce for such commodities as pottery. These pithoi were often as tall as a man and had very thick walls. Many examples have no secure means of support because they were commonly half buried in the earth in special store-rooms. Pithoi that had gone out of use were sometimes employed to raise the lip of a well, and beginning in the early Bronze age, they also served as funerary vessels.

The Roman author and architect Vitruvius discussed all forms of ancient Roman architecture in his book "De architecture" including water systems. He notes in chapter 6 of book 8 abou these hydraulic systems that there are 3 principal types of systems, stone channels, lead pipes and terracotta pipes. He regarded terracotta pipes as the best choice, since they were easier and more economical to make than the stone channels and less harmful than lead pipes. The thick terracotta pipes discovered in Troy (Ilios) correspond to Vitruvius'description and to finds from numerous other sites in the Roman Empire. The pipe joints were fixed with a mixture of lime and oil. corners and distribution points were made primarily of stone.

Since the Beginning of time grain has been a part of human diet. Before ht eestablishment of permanent settlements the seeds of wild cereals were gathered only occasionally; but with the advent of neolithic period, circa 10,000 BCE, the early types of grain began to play a central role in agriculture and served as the main source of nourishment.

In order to make the harvested grain usable it had to be winnoed and ground. This was done with wooden flails on threshing floors. It was then ground for a long time with simple stone mortars. Because of storage limitations and problems with preservation, only as much wheat as was necessary was ground just before it was to be used, each household carried out this task individually. The mortars or the grinding stones discovered in Troya remained unchanged for centuries include the method of grinding. A handful of grain was spread out on a large flat or saddle-shaped stone (base stone) and laboriously pounded with an egg shaped or cylindrical grinding stone (the pestle). In order for successful grinding to occur, the stone being used must be as coarse as possible, but also hard and durable so that not too much sand or stone residue is mixed with the flour, although a certain amount of this was unavoidable. The most popular stones were granite, basalt, and porphyry, if they were available.

This type of manual grinding of grain remaind in use in Mesopotamia until about 1000 BCE. Then wheel-milling came in and continued through the last few centuries BCE in the region. Such strenuous and tedious work was apparently carried out only by women and girls. This is demonstrated by representations of milling in Egyptian art and also by the morphological changes in joints observable in female skeletons on the period.