Researchers said their findings suggest husbands relocated to the wife's household upon marriage – suggesting a female ...

Blegen became famous for helping uncover the ancient city of Troy, found in present-day Hisarlik, Turkey, and the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War as told in the epic poems of Homer.

Schliemann believed that the Troy ruled over by King Priam, as in the Iliad, would be found at the deepest layer of the city, and so, beginning in 1870, he aimed for the base of Hisarlik’s mound.

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 ...

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 ...

Çanakkale, in modern Turkey, sits near the site of Truva, or ancient Troy. The archaeological site is said to have been where the mythical Trojan War took place. But historians say there is real ...

Today archaeologists consider Troy VI—the sixth counting from the bottom up—to be the likeliest candidate for Homer’s Troy. This city dates from around 1700 to 1250 B.C., and its citizens ...

In the 1930s, archaelogist Carl Blegen led a University of Cincinnati excavation of the ancient city of Troy, looking for evidence of the Trojan War.

Çanakkale, in modern Turkey, sits near the site of Truva, or ancient Troy. The archaeological site is said to have been where the mythical Trojan War took place. But historians say there is real ...