With Türkiye highlighting its Aeneas Route of archaeological sites along western Çanakkale province, Troy and its fine new museum are drawing ever more ancient world enthusiasts. ByJohn Oseid, ...

For the better part of two centuries, archaeologists have been uncovering the secrets of ancient Troy. On the northwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, the city at the heart of Homer’s Iliad and the ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their main square.

When you think of archaeology, the first name that likely pops up is Indiana Jones. As for real world professionals, back in the 1930s through 1960s, the best-known American archaeologist was Carl W.

A depas goblet excavated from the ruins of Troy by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s University of Tübingen In the first book of the Iliad, the god Hephaestus passes a “double goblet” around at a ...

Over a few short months in 1871, Heinrich Schliemann achieved a task that had eluded literature’s fiercest ensemble of warriors: he breached the supposedly impregnable walls of Troy. To do so, the ...

Helen of Troy is one of the most prominent figures of ancient Greek mythology, and her birth is nothing short of a miracle.

For the better part of two centuries, archaeologists have been uncovering the secrets of ancient Troy. On the northwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, the city at the heart of Homer's Iliad and the ...