What do we really know about Priam’s Treasure from Hisarlik, the ancient site of Troy? Where is it now, and was it really ...

For the first time, scientists have found definitive proof that wine was drunk at the ancient city of Troy, according to a ...

The film 'HisTroy,' written by Troy Museum Director Rıdvan Gölcük and directed and produced by Ülkü Sönmez, received an ...

Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine ...

Researchers have found chemical evidence of wine consumption in ancient Troy, confirming a theory by Heinrich Schliemann.

This finding is part of the long-standing tradition of research on Troy that the University of Tübingen has maintained for decades. Between 1987 and 2012, the institution led excavations at Hisarlık, ...

In the first book of the Iliad, the god Hephaestus passes a “double goblet” around at a banquet on Mount Olympus. “He poured ...

Further archaeological excavations at Troy ... this may have been true. However, Troy, like many other sites in the Aegean and western Asia Minor, was located in a region particularly favourable ...

He poured the drink, going from right to left, for all the other gods, drawing off sweet nectar from the mixing bowl.” It ...