A relief depicting Ajax, one of the heroes of the legendary Trojan War, one of the most significant battles of the ancient world, has been discovered. The relief of Ajax was unearthed on the island of Salamis in Greece. The Trojan War begins with the abduction of Helen, the wife of Menelaus, the king of…
During the excavation of the foundation of a construction site in the Kadirli district of Osmaniye, the mosaic of the Trojan War hero, also known as the ancestor of the Roman people, ‘Aeneas,’ was uncovered. The mosaic was found in the ruins of a Roman-era villa. According to a news article from the IHA, the…
Why does Troy appear like an isolated outpost at the very top of the north-eastern Aegean when the cultural events of the time were much further south, namely in Minoan Crete and within the Mycenaean culture at the southernmost extremity of the Balkans? Who did the Trojans actually count as their neighbors? How should one…