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 ...

CANAKKALE, 21 July (BelTA - Anadolu) - Archaeologists are continuing excavations at the ancient city of Troy in northwestern Türkiye, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a history spanning 5,500 years, ...

Standing amidst the ruins of Troy, with its weathered stones and crumbling walls, one cannot help but feel a connection to the echoes of ancient civilizations that once thrived here. The site, ...

Helen of Troy—the face that launched a thousand ships. In search of her, where did those Greek ships land in Troy? Scientists, joined by a Greek scholar, discovered where Troy's harbor might have been ...

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 ...

Over a few short months in 1871, Heinrich Schliemann achieved a task that had eluded literature’s fiercest ensemble of warriors: he breached the supposedly impregnable walls of Troy. To do so, the ...

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 ...

Archaeologists excavating some ruins in Turkey unearthed five loaves of Communion bread from 1,200 years ago, officials said. Photo from the Karaman Governorate The summaries below were drafted with ...