Troy: Exploring the Archaeology and Enduring Allure of a …
May 27, 2024 · The accompanying Troy Museum, opened in 2018, showcases a collection of artifacts spanning 5,000 years. Exhibits (with English labels) include pottery, sculptures, figurines, weapons, coins, and jewelry, as well as dioramas and models depicting daily life in ancient Troy.
Troy - Wikipedia
Troy VIIb2 is marked by dramatic cultural changes including walls made of upright stones and a handmade knobbed pottery style known as Buckelkeramik. These practices, which existed alongside older local traditions, have been argued to reflect immigrant populations arriving from southwest Europe.
The Many Myths of the Man Who 'Discovered'—and Nearly Destroyed—Troy
May 17, 2022 · When German businessman Heinrich Schliemann discovered a cache of ancient artifacts in the place now known as Hisarlik, Turkey, in 1873, he was quick to identify the gold jewelry, silver vases...
Troy and the Trojan War: Archaeology, History and the Epic …
Analyses of the Mycenaean pottery at Troy have established a date of LH IIIB2/LH IIIC Early (ca. 1200 B.C.) for the destruction of Troia VIIa and a date of LH IIIC Late (c. 1070) for the destruction of Troia VIIb2 (Mountjoy 1999b, see discussion above).
In Search of Troy | Smithsonian
With its stirring descriptions of martial pageantry, its dramatic accounts of close combat, its heroic but flawed characters, its sacrifices, betrayals, grieving lovers and parents, and its...
Ancient Troy: The city and the legend of the Trojan War
Feb 8, 2022 · Troy is an ancient city and archaeological site in modern-day Turkey, but is also famously the setting for the legendary Trojan War in Homer's epic poems the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." In legend,...
Digging up Hisarlik —Part 1: The Search for Troy
Aug 4, 2019 · In the nineteenth century, the mound of Hisarlik in Turkey became the focus of these explorations, when early archaeologists pinpointed the site as the most likely location of Troy. Setting aside their ancient texts, these scholars took up spades and trowels and began excavating for Troy.
Late Bronze Age Troy - Wikipedia
Troy VIIb2 is marked by dramatic cultural changes including walls made of upright stones and a handmade knobbed pottery style known as Buckelkeramik. These practices, which existed alongside older local traditions, have been argued to reflect immigrant populations arriving from southwest Europe.
Review – Troy: myth and reality - Current Archaeology
Jan 13, 2020 · Much of the material from Troy is pottery: there is an impressively proportioned storage jar (c.2550-2300 BC); a range of face pots (c.2550-1750 BC) that Schliemann believed represented ‘owl-faced’ Athena (as Homer described the goddess); and endearing animal-shaped vessels (c.2550-2300 BC) that were often made by hand and carefully burnished.
Troy - World History Encyclopedia
May 11, 2018 · Troy is the name of the Bronze Age city attacked in the Trojan War, a popular story in the mythology of ancient Greece, and the name given to the archaeological site in the north-west of Asia Minor (now Turkey) which has revealed a large and …