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 ...

Homers Iliad is so canonical in world literature that even without having read the epic, most people are familiar with the ...

The question of Helen’s involvement in the Trojan War clearly poses difficult questions—and has done so ever since the age of ...

The site of Hisarlik and the nine towns of Troy Known from ancient times, and widely recognised as the most likely site of the city of Troy, is the mound of Hisarlik in western Turkey. Once the ...

Caption The skeleton of a woman who died 800 years ago on the outskirts of the ancient city of Troy in modern Turkey has yielded the first record of maternal sepsis in the fossil record. DNA ...

Based loosely on Homers ancient Greek epic poem 'Iliad', Troy: Fall of a City tells the story of the 10 year siege of the ancient city of Troy by the Greeks, after Paris, the young prince of Troy ...

In Hidden Aegean, travel expert Peter Greenberg explores hidden gems of Turkey’s Aegean coast, including Bodrum, Izmir, and the ancient city of Troy. Activities include walking among the ancient ...

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 ...