What do we really know about Priam’s Treasure from Hisarlik, the ancient site of Troy? Where is it now, and was it really ...

Just about everyone in Turkey's ancient city was a wine drinker - whether or not they belonged to the upper classes or the ...

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

For the first time, scientists have found definitive proof that wine was drunk at the ancient city of Troy, according to a ...

A depas goblet excavated from the ruins of Troy by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s University of Tübingen In the first book of the Iliad, the god Hephaestus passes a “double goblet” around ...

In Troy, wine was far from being reserved solely for the rich and powerful, indicating that it was an element present in the ...

Heinrich Schliemann's 19th-century excavations initially brought Troy into the limelight. Schliemann was captivated by the depas amphikypellon, a two-handle drinking cup referenced in Homer's ...

A multitude of mysteries remain unsolved about the ancient Greek world, providing more questions than answers.

Europe's oldest vanilla pod (below), found in Prague Castle (above). Credit: J. Irmišová et al. A recent archaeobotanical study has uncovered an unexpected discovery in the heart of Europe: the oldest ...