Schliemann believed that the Troy ruled over by King Priam, as in the Iliad, would be found at the deepest layer of the city, and so, beginning in 1870, he aimed for the base of Hisarlik’s mound.

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...

Blegen became famous for helping uncover the ancient city of Troy, found in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey, and the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War as told in the epic poems of Homer.

In parts of the ancient word, wine has long been thought as a luxury reserved only for the elite. But a new study reveals the mighty ancient city of Troy may have been the exception. Scientists in ...

Çanakkale, in modern Turkey, sits near the site of Truva, or ancient Troy. The archaeological site is said to have been where the mythical Trojan War took place. But historians say there is real ...

Though the remaining roles have yet to be confirmed, major characters in the book include Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, and Greek ...

In the 1930s, archaelogist Carl Blegen led a University of Cincinnati excavation of the ancient city of Troy, looking for evidence of the Trojan War.

Who Drank Wine in Ancient Troy? New Research Suggests Just About Everyone Chemical analyses revealed wine residue on both expensive goblets and common cups unearthed among the legendary city’s ruins ...

The ruins of Homer’s Troy are located in the layer known as Troy VI level, while artifacts were discovered in Troy II, dated to around 2400 BCE, around a thousand years before the Trojan War.

A wide wooden boardwalk circling Troy makes the ancient city much more accessible of late. getty. In a now well-told tale, the roguish late-19th-century German trade merchant Heinrich Schliemann ...

One of these heavily fortified towns (Troy VIIa), violently destroyed, can be dated to c.1300-1200 BC, and late last century, a large lower town beyond this citadel was identified of about the ...