A German archaeologist’s dig of important historic pieces in the 1870s set off an ownership battle between Turkey, Germany ...

Beneath the ruins of ancient Troy, a 2,000-year-old Roman street is shedding new light on the city’s Roman past ...

The ancient skeleton of a woman who lived near the storied city of Troy has given up the secrets of what killed her. Researchers unearthed the Byzantine bones and discovered both that she was pregnant ...

With Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey now in theaters worldwide, audiences are revisiting the story of Odysseus, the hero in Greek mythology who embarks on a long journey home after the Trojan War.

For centuries, the Trojan War has stood at the crossroads of history and legend. Immortalised in Homer's Iliad, the story tells of Greek warriors, Trojan princes, divine intervention and a decade-long ...

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 ...

Although historians aren't in complete agreement, evidence indicates that the ancient Greeks really did lay siege to the city of Troy. For centuries, the famous Trojan War immortalized by Homer and ...

Homer described Troy as having a hot and a cold spring, but there does not appear to be a hot spring at Hisarlik. Can scholars explain this?

The landscape around Troy does not immediately suggest a single ancient city preserved in isolation. The ground rises gradually at Hisarlık, a mound shaped less by nature than by repeated human ...

Ancient Troy's royal cemetery, for example, has yet to be discovered and archaeologists are eager to add to the single example of prehistoric writing known from Troy, a small bronze seal from the ...

Çanakkale province is packed with important Greek and Roman sites like Smintheion and Alexandria Troas. A new bridge across the Dardanelles strait makes them easy to reach from Istanbul. ByJohn Oseid, ...