Now, recent excavations have uncovered a grand banquet hall with frescoes of mythological subjects from the Trojan War. The paintings include Helen of Troy; Paris, the Prince of Troy; and their ...

Burned ruins, broken weapons, and hastily buried human remains confirm signs of a sudden, violent attack, challenging the ...

The war that formed the historical basis for the story of the Trojan War took place around 1250-80 BCE, contemporary scholars believe, during the Mycenaean Age in Greece. Following the Mycenaean ...

Review: 'The Trojan War Museum,' By Ayşe Papatya Bucak Ayşe Papatya Bucak's debut collection is full of musical, lyrical stories that occupy a dreamscape of Turkish culture, art history and ...

The Trojan War was celebrated by legendary authors like Homer, who told the tale of the large wooden horse that tricked the ...

A black-walled dining hall with 2,000-year-old paintings inspired by the Trojan War has been discovered during excavations at the Roman city of Pompeii, authorities said on Thursday.

Modern scholars all relate this simple scene to one of the last moments of the Trojan War. The black man is Memnon, the great warrior said to be from “Aethiopia,” who is briefly mentioned by ...

Ancient Paintings Depicting Trojan War Figures Were Just Unearthed in Pompei In Pompeii, the paintings would have been conversation starters during banquets. Published on April 12, 2024.

Did the Greeks really use chariots how Homer describes in his account of the Trojan War, or did Homer just misrepresent Mycenaean warfare?

The cause of the Trojan War, famously, was the elopement of beautiful Helen, queen of the Greek city of Sparta, with Paris, Hector’s brother and a handsome prince from the Asiatic kingdom of Troy.