Visiting academic at the British Museum and past curator of Mesopotamia, Nigel Tallis, takes us through the story of Troy. The fame of the beautiful Helen, the deeds of the Greek and Trojan heroes ...

The trouble was that Troy might not even have existed. The acclaimed Greek poet Homer popularized the Trojans and their city in The Iliad and The Odyssey, the 8th-century B.C. epic poems.These ...

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 ...

Menelaus summons the Greek leaders to send an army to sack Troy and bring Helen back. Part 2 Among the Greeks there is one hero who doesn't wish to go to war. Odysseus has a new baby and wants to ...

Scholars have long debated whether the city of Troy described in Homer’s “Iliad” actually existed, but its afterlife is indisputably real. For some 3,000 years, the legend of Troy’s ...