Modern excavations have revealed that there is a massive system of tunnels underneath the city of Troy. How archaeology uncovered the tunnels underneath Troy Archaeologists have been excavating ...

Blegen became famous for helping uncover the ancient city of Troy, found in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey, and the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War as told in the epic poems of Homer.

Schliemann was famously mistaken in his understanding of which archaeological level at Hisarlik corresponded to the Troy of Homer’s Iliad. He dug much further down than the Troy of Greek legend. The ...

According to recent analysis of ancient relics recovered from the real ruins of Troy, wine wasn’t restricted to Greek divinity and wealthy humans. It was likely enjoyed by everyday residents, too.

Homer’s The Odyssey isn’t just an ancient story—it’s the blueprint for Western literature. Written in the 8th century BCE and set in a mythic version of Greece, this epic poem weaves ...

The site of Hisarlik-Troy, ravaged by the large-scale operations of Heinrich Schliemann between 1870 and 1890, concluded after his death by his architect Wilhelm Dörpfeld in 1893-94, and ...

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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.

Homer wrote with such bristling details about the Trojan War, fought between the Greek forces and the city of Troy, arguably located in Hisarlik in modern-day Turkiye, that archaeologists and ...

AKA the Ilion was an ancient city that is situated in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey. Here are some facts that you might not know about this site. It is believed that the city was founded on a grassy ...