The ancient skeleton of a woman who lived near the storied city of Troy has given up the secrets of what killed her. Researchers unearthed the Byzantine bones and discovered both that she was pregnant ...

Death during pregnancy or childbirth would have been common in the ancient world, but these stories are often invisible in the archaeological record. However, in a new study of ancient DNA, ...

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 ...

Death during pregnancy or childbirth would have been common in the ancient world, but these stories are often invisible in the archaeological record. However, in a new study of ancient DNA, ...

"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 ...

In parts of the ancient word, wine has long been thought as a luxury reserved only for the elite. But a new study reveals the mighty ancient city of Troy may have been the exception. Scientists in ...

For the better part of two centuries, archaeologists have been uncovering the secrets of ancient Troy. On the northwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, the city at the heart of Homer’s Iliad and the ...

Although there are more spectacular ancient sites on Turkey’s Aegean coast, including the magnificent library at Ephesus and the temple of Trajan on the citadel overlooking the valley at Pergamon, the ...

The classic Greek epic poem The Iliad attributed to Homer regales the listener with tales of the siege of ancient Troy. "The World According to Sound" podcast reads the poem how it was intended — ...