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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.

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

All That History November 5, 2024

Homer’s Iliad is one of the oldest stories which has survived. Coming out of the...

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.

The Mycenaean Collapse: A Massacre in the Palaces?

All That History October 15, 2024

Bronze Age Greece is seen as a golden age. This is Homer’s Greece, the Greece...