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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…
Mycenaean warriors depicted on a vase. Something sudden happened to the Bronze Age palaces which caused them to be abandoned as society collapsed, and the social order which replaced them looked decidedly different. Source: Sharon Mollerus / CC BY 2.0.
15 OCT 2024 · 7 MIN

The Mycenaean Collapse: A Massacre in the Palaces?

Bronze Age Greece is seen as a golden age. This is Homer’s Greece, the Greece of the Iliad and the Trojan War, of city states and island kingdoms, of great heroes and…