There’s no country quite like Turkey. One moment you’re haggling over silk scarves in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, the next you’re sipping tea as hot air ...

You’ve probably heard of the Trojan Horse and Helen of Troy, but what about the actual city where this legendary drama supposedly unfolded? Troy isn’t just a figment of ancient storytelling. It’s a ...

A Bay Area lab is using modern technology to recover history that had literally been erased. The x-ray beam that comes out of a tube hits a specific sample, generating data about the elements sitting ...

Hitherto the latter half of the 19th century, the historical consensus around Troy - the mythic, legendary location from Homer’s notable work, the Iliad - was thought to be just that - a legend.

For years, scholars debated whether the city of Troy—famous from Homer’s Iliad—was real or mythical. Early archaeologists made assumptions that would later be challenged or corrected. In this ATG ...

New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...

The team behind what has been described as ‘one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK’ have revealed that it depicts an alternative ‘long-lost’ telling of the Trojan War. New research ...

Quincy High School drama students are performing the ancient Greek tragedy "The Women of Troy." The play focuses on the aftermath of the Trojan War as experienced by the captive women. Director Tom ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When archaeologist Takeshi Inomata and his team began excavating for Maya ruins in the lowlands of what ...

Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...