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Troy (Ancient Greek: Τροία, romanized: Troíā; Latin: Trōia; Hittite: 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭, romanized: Truwiša / Taruiša) or Ilion (Ancient Greek: Ίλιον, romanized: Ī́lion, Hittite: 𒌷𒃾𒇻𒊭, romanized: Wiluša) [1] [2] [3] [4] was an ancient city located in present-day Hisarlık (near Tevfikiye), Turkey. The place ...
18 cze 2019 · The site of Troy, in the northwest corner of modern-day Turkey, was first settled in the Early Bronze Age, from around 3000 BC. Over the four thousand years of its existence, countless generations have lived at Troy.
21 lis 2019 · The story of a great city, plunged into a 10-year war over the abduction of the most beautiful woman in the world, is irresistibly dramatic and tragic. This allure has sent adventurers and archaeologists in quest of the lost city, which is now widely believed to have existed.
14 sty 2020 · The British Museum’s latest exhibition, Troy: Myth and Reality (21 November, 2019 to 8 March, 2020), picks up on this modern surge of interest in the Trojan War – and shows that retelling the myth of Troy, and rethinking ourselves through it, is, quite simply, nothing new.
In Search of Troy. It wasn’t just a legend. Archaeologists are getting to the bottom of the city celebrated by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago. Detail from a 4th-century B.C. Persian sarcophagus,...
22 mar 2023 · Troy was an ancient city located at Hisarlik in modern-day Turkey. The city was continuously inhabited from the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000-2200 BCE) for around 4,000 years.
18 cze 2019 · Spanning several decades, the tale is set in Greece's mythical past. At its heart is the powerful city of Troy on the western coast of Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), besieged for 10 years by the Greeks, who sailed across the Aegean Sea to take revenge for a grave insult – the abduction of a woman.
