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 ...

On the northwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, the city at the heart of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War was somewhere between myth and history until ruins were discovered in Hisarlık in the late ...

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, ...

The 4,500-year-old ring brooch, the best preserved of three worldwide, conclusively dates Troy II to about 2500 BCE and will soon be displayed at the Troy Museum.

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, aiming to uncover new evidence ...

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 ...

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 ...