Over a few short months in 1871, Heinrich Schliemann achieved a task that had eluded literature’s fiercest ensemble of warriors: he breached the supposedly impregnable walls of Troy. To do so, the ...

It wasn’t just a legend. Archaeologists are getting to the bottom of the city celebrated by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago Detail from a 4th-century B.C. Persian sarcophagus, thought to depict a ...

In the 1870s, amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann inflicted irreparable damage on the site of the legendary city Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History When German businessman ...

New Troy exhibition at the British Museum showcases archaeological finds smuggled out of Turkey in the 19th century The exhibition includes some of German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann's finds ...

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...

Did the city of Troy really exist? Is the Trojan War myth or military reality? And what about that giant horse? As the blockbuster Brad Pitt film Troy storms the cinemas, archaeologists and historians ...

The stones of Hisarlik bear no comparison. The site is very old, but seems never to have been very grand. Like a collapsed multi-level car park, Hisarlik conserves the confused remains of some nine ...