TROY — I'm still trying to make sense of a Troy election that will never make any sense. A mayor's race that saw the Republican candidate drop out and get back in again — and included an explosive ...

The Ancient Ruins of Turkey have been a source of fascination for travellers for centuries. From the majestic city of Istanbul to the ancient ruins of Ephesus, Turkey is a country that is full of ...

Because of a truck piled high with crates of tomatoes on the narrow road, making it dangerous to pass, the tour bus almost arrived too late at the ancient city of Troy. But there was just enough time ...

"Was the Troy which Homer celebrates, the citadel of Priam, a real city? And where did it lie?" With these questions Professor Dorpfeld, after a brief introduction, began his lecture in the Fogg Art ...

Work is accelerating at site on Hisarlık Hill, formerly a ‘ruin of a ruin’, and a museum will open next year Rüstem Aslan, Troy’s chief archaeologist, grows more animated as he enters the fenced-off ...

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 ...

A major setting in the epic poem “The Iliad” by the Greek writer Homer, Troy was long believed to be a place of pure fiction. Although there is debate about the locations and events that inspired many ...

Rare, centuries-old Roman paintings were uncovered in the ruins of Pompeii. The frescoes were found in a dining room in the ruined city buried under ash after a catastrophic volcanic eruption in 79 ...