The period between 1050 and 700 B.C. is sometimes referred to as the “Trojan Dark Age.” Traditionally, very little has been known about Troy in the 400-year period after the destruction of the Bronze ...

It wasn’t just a legend. Archaeologists are getting to the bottom of the city celebrated by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago Detail from a 4th-century B.C. Persian sarcophagus, thought to depict a ...

"Was the Troy which Homer celebrates, the citadel of Priam, a real city? And where did it lie?" With these questions Professor Dorpfeld, after a brief introduction, began his lecture in the Fogg Art ...

Heinrich Schliemann, the German archaeologist, was in Turkey in the late 19th century on an eccentric quest. He was excavating a tell—an artificial mound that covers long abandoned settlements. The ...

The oldest settlement at Troy dates to the end of the fourth millennium B.C. It was founded on a small hilltop near an inland lagoon of the Dardanelles, a narrow strait connecting the Sea of Marmara ...

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TROY — I'm still trying to make sense of a Troy election that will never make any sense. A mayor's race that saw the Republican candidate drop out and get back in again — and included an explosive ...

War-torn Troy is in ruins. The men are dead and the surviving women and their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. Hecuba, a grandmother and once Queen, awaits her uncertain future ...

A major setting in the epic poem “The Iliad” by the Greek writer Homer, Troy was long believed to be a place of pure fiction. Although there is debate about the locations and events that inspired many ...

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