Did the legendary kings of Troy really exist? Some researchers argue that they appear in Hittite letters, but is this really ...

Traditionally, very little has been known about Troy in the 400-year period after the destruction of the Bronze Age settlement of Troy VII. For most of the 20th century, experts believed that the ...

What language did the Trojans speak? Was it Greek, Luwian, or something else? This article examines the evidence.

This was one of the most important trade routes in the ancient world, and Troy’s location enabled the city and its inhabitants to flourish, especially during the Bronze Age. Over the past two ...

Thousands of stone ax heads and painted pottery shards found on the site suggest a previously unknown society of hundreds of people — comparable to the size of Bronze Age Troy — who might have ...

From archaeology, though, we know enough to see that there are many intriguing elements within Homer’s story of Troy and its grim, bronze-clad heroes which reflect an earlier age. Even the metre ...

For 27 centuries, Helen of Troy has been one of the most exciting ... is that every time there is an excavating season of Bronze and Iron Age sites in the Eastern Mediterranean or Near East ...