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

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.

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.

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 ...