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Trojan War

Greece’s Lost City of Tenea Gives Up More Secrets

2019-10-23 by Phil Butler

Tenea Baths

The Greek Culture Ministry announced this week new discoveries from excavations at the ancient city of Tenea in the Peloponnese. Archaeologists led by Eleni Korka, have uncovered a complex of bathing facilities, of roughly 600 square meters, dating from between the end of the third century BC to the mid-1st century BC. The lost city […]

Tags: ancient city, archaeological discovery, archaeology, Eleni Korka, Greece archaeology, Greece ruins, Lost City of Tenea, Tenea, Trojan City, Trojan War, Trojans

The Troy of Legend Now Thought to Be Much Older

2019-08-23 by Phil Butler

Troy Walls

Recent excavations at the ancient city Troy in Turkey’s northwestern Çanakkale province reveal a much older history than previously thought.

Tags: archaeology, Bronze Age, Heinrich Schliemann, Helen of Troy, Rustem Aslan, Sophia Schliemann, Trojan War, Troy, Turkey history, William Aylward

Greek Archeologists Find the Lost City of Tenea in the Peloponese

2018-11-14 by Phil Butler

Tenea statue

Greece’s Ministry of Culture has announced what’s being called a “monumental find,” as excavators unearth a site identified as the fabled city of Tenea in southern Greece.

Tags: Agamemmnon, Ancient Greece, Ancient Tenea, archeology, Corinth, culture, Elena Korka, Greek antiquity, Greek culture, Tenea, Teneans, Trojan War, Trojans, Trojas

Odysseus’ Palace Archaeological Dig on Ithaca to Continue

2018-08-29 by Phil Butler

Ithaki

A visit to from Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras is cause for renewed enthusiasm over continued excavations at the Palace of Odysseus on the island of Ithaca (Ithaki).

Tags: Achilles, Alexis Tsipras, archaeological discovery, Homer, Ithaca, Ithaki, Odysseus, Palace of Odysseus, Thanassis Papadopoulos, Trojan War, Troy




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