According to some researchers, King Priam of Troy actually appears in Hittite sources. What do the facts really show?

In legend, the city of Troy was besieged for 10 years and eventually conquered by a Greek army led by King Agamemnon. This "Trojan War erupted because Helen, a queen from Sparta, was abducted by ...

The trouble was that Troy might not even have existed. The acclaimed Greek poet Homer popularized the Trojans and their city in The Iliad and The Odyssey, the 8th-century B.C. epic poems.These ...

He called this “Priam’s Treasure,” after the mythical king of Troy. However, Troy II and the treasure date to around 2400 B.C., more than 1,000 years before the supposed events of the Trojan ...

After retirement, Blegen collaborated with fellow UC archaeologist Marion Rawson on an 11-volume text on UC’s expedition to Troy, and a four-volume work on the excavation of King Nestor’s ...

Ancient Greek historian Roel Konijnendijk, a fellow and tutor at Oxford, broke Troy down for History Hit on YouTube. Of course, Konijnendijk highlights some of the little, goofier historical ...

That it was led by the King of Mycenae, Agamemnon, and this whole era in Greek history has become known as Mycenaean. In the legend a thousand Mycenaean ships sailed to Troy to bring Helen home ...

It should be recalled, too, that although the “Iliad” ends before the fall of Troy, Menelaus is said by later Greek sources to have forgiven Helen and to have lived in happy, monogamous ...