The playwright borrows elements of Greek tragedy for his story about a lesser-known king who provides defensive aid in the ...

Archaeologists at ancient Troy uncover 3,500-year-old sling stones, offering new clues to the legendary Trojan War.

For the ancient Greeks, the Trojan War was a real historical event fought by their heroic ancestors. But until 150 years ago, many modern historians doubted its authenticity, considering it to be ...

In Will Power’s play for the Classical Theater of Harlem, Eric Berryman stars as an Ethiopian king drawn into the Trojan War.

Archaeologists are continuing excavations at the ancient city of Troy in northwestern Türkiye, a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...

Part of Blegen’s goal was to find archaeological evidence of the Trojan War. As you may remember from high school literature class, the Trojan War was a 10-year siege of Troy by the Greeks ...

The legend of Helen of Troy goes that, in her youth, she was abducted by the Greek hero Theseus for her beauty.The men of her home country, Greece, subsequently went to war to bring her home. However, ...

Thanks in part to their work, most historians now believe that the city uncovered at Hisarlik is the Troy Homer wrote about, and that a war or series of wars did in fact play out between the ...