Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.

And while this trend is gaining huge traction in recent years, as far back as 2011 American author Madeline Miller won the Orange Women’s Prize for Fiction with her own Troy re-telling, The Song ...

Women of Troy is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides, produced in 415 BC, telling the story of Athens's invasion and enslavement of the people of Melos from the perspective of the survivors.

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 ...

But unless you were an archaeology student, you might not know of Blegen’s contributions. Blegen became famous for helping uncover the ancient city of Troy, found in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey ...

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 ...

Archaeologists at Troy have unearthed more than 100 depas goblets dated to between 2500 and 2000 B.C.E. They tend to measure between 5 and 15 inches tall and can contain up to a liter of liquid ...

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.

When, in 2018, Pat Barker published “The Silence of the Girls,” the first novel in her Women of Troy series, the popularity of fiction revisiting ancient Greek mythology was still in its infancy.

Imagine seeing the face of Helen of Troy staring back at you, from within the ashes of a 2,000-year-old city. But these aren't the burned walls of T. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.