Over the course of several centuries, Troy was repeatedly destroyed, but a new city would rise up on the ruins of the last. People lived there until Roman times.

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 ...

Ruins of the South Gate leading into the Citadel, ... Until about 150 years ago, it was widely believed that Troy was a fiction, a mythical city like Atlantis or El Dorado.

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.

Troy is an ancient city and archaeological site in western Turkey. The site of Troy was first settled in the Early Bronze Age, from around 3000 BC. Troy fell into ruin at the end of the Bronze Age ...

In the 1930s, archaelogist Carl Blegen led a University of Cincinnati excavation of the ancient city of Troy, looking for evidence of the Trojan War.

Location of Poliochne (Poliochni) and Troy facing each other. Credit: Numrich et al. 2022 / Ch. Schwall / ÖAI / ÖAW . The strategic location of Poliochne, on a promontory protected by natural bays and ...