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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Just about everyone in Turkey's ancient city was a wine drinker - whether or not they belonged to the upper classes or the common masses, report scientists in Germany.

In fact, it was something just outside the South Gate, in this unglamorous part of the ancient city, that Aslan wanted to show me next: a huge trench, 20 feet deep, which Aslan and his team have ...

On this day in 1183 BC, the ancient city of Troy is traditionally thought to have fallen to the Greeks. The story of the fall of Troy, as captured in Greek sources such as the epic poem, the Iliad ...

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 ...