Although there are more spectacular ancient sites on Turkey’s Aegean coast, including the magnificent library at Ephesus and ...

KS2 History - Ancient Greece: The Trojan War. The main events of the war at Troy (as related in 'The Iliad' by Homer) are told by a Greek soldier remembering the battle. There are 7 video episodes ...

The cause of the Trojan War, famously, was the elopement of beautiful Helen, queen of the Greek city of Sparta, with Paris, Hector’s brother and a handsome prince from the Asiatic kingdom of Troy.

The Troy site was inhabited almost continually from 3000 B.C. to the Roman times in the first century A.D. Part of Blegen’s goal was to find archaeological evidence of the Trojan War.

Archaeologists at Troy have unearthed more than 100 depas goblets dated to between 2500 and 2000 B.C.E. They tend to measure between 5 and 15 inches tall and can contain up to a liter of liquid ...