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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Death during pregnancy or childbirth would have been common in the ancient world, but these stories are often invisible in the archaeological record. However, in a new study of ancient DNA, ...

The ancient city of Troy has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and storytellers for centuries. Made famous through epic ...

Death during pregnancy or childbirth would have been common in the ancient world, but these stories are often invisible in the archaeological record. However, in a new study of ancient DNA, ...

"Was the Troy which Homer celebrates, the citadel of Priam, a real city? And where did it lie?" With these questions Professor Dorpfeld, after a brief introduction, began his lecture in the Fogg Art ...

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, Former ...

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 ...

The classic Greek epic poem The Iliad attributed to Homer regales the listener with tales of the siege of ancient Troy. "The World According to Sound" podcast reads the poem how it was intended — ...