What it is: A gold funerary mask of a man's face Where it is from: Mycenae, an archaeological site in ... showed the ...

The city was buried in ash by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Now, recent excavations have uncovered a grand banquet hall with frescoes of mythological subjects from the Trojan War.

For centuries Troy was believed to be a mythical city. Now, a leading team of American archaeologists have discovered an ancient thriving city, and evidence of a real Trojan War.