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Examples of the depas amphikypellon found near Schielmann’s Troy. Source: Internet Archive Book Images / Public Domain.
3 APR 2025 · 3 MIN

“I’ll Drink to That!” Everyone Loved Wine in Bronze Age Troy, New Study Finds

Homer’s Iliad is a problematic text. On the one hand, it tells us of a time before the Bronze Age Collapse in the twelfth century BC, a lost era before the Greek…
Turns out we may know about the Trojan War from the Hittites, and the mysterious people to the west they called the Ahhiyawans. Source: Unknown Author / Public Domain.
5 NOV 2024 · 6 MIN

The Ahhiyawa and Wilusa: Did the Hittites Know of the Trojan War?

Homer’s Iliad is one of the oldest stories which has survived. Coming out of the Greek Dark Age and describing events which occurred more than three millennia ago, it is a richly…
The excavated Greek ruins including the large L-shaped rampart wall. Some of the finds indicate a site dating back to the golden age of Bronze Age Greece. Source: Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media.
9 OCT 2024 · 2 MIN

Ancient Greek Ruins in Croatia Date back to the Trojan War

Archaeologists in the village of Stobreč in Croatia have unearthed an ancient Greek settlement. What makes this find especially exciting is that the oldest finds date back some 3,500 years, placing them…
Ichor is often portrayed as a golden liquid, ethereal and very different to mortal blood. Source: Ann Wuyts / CC BY 2.0.
1 OCT 2024 · 6 MIN

Ichor, Life Blood of the Immortals

It is fair to say that gods are a little different. Whilst most creation myths have mankind created in the image of their immortal, divine benefactors, that image is rarely more than…