The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...

The city was gradually transformed ... which was the largest Doric temple in northwestern Asia Minor. Federico Barrocci’s 1598 painting Aeneas’ Flight from Troy Troy IX (ca.

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary fortress ...

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research ...