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.

"The longer we put off the City Hall (project), the more it will cost." Councilman Francis Flynn said those words at a 1971 meeting in which Troy City Council voted down a property purchase for a ...

This site (Troy II) was initially identfied as the city of Homer’s tale by Heinrich Schliemann. 1700-1250 B.C. Troy VI that thrived at this time is now believed to be that of Homer’s legend ...

As it turned out, the jewelry and other artifacts he found at this layer, known as Troy II, dated to between 2500 and 2300 B.C., about 1,000 years earlier than the agreed upon time of Homeric Troy.

The Troy City Council held a second investigative hearing Thursday into the Harbour Point Gardens apartment complex, which was suddenly evacuated in late June due to sagging brick façades.

Schliemann had found that rather than one city, there had been at least nine built on top of each other, identified in layers. The Troy site was inhabited almost continually from 3000 B.C. to the ...

During a meeting of the Troy City Council June 9, plans for a new library building were presented by Peter Bolek, the ...

The ilium was Troy is, which is a throwback to when Troy was named because originally, before 1789, Troy was Vanderheyden, was the Village of Vanderheyden, or sometimes it was known as Ashley's Ferry.