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2,000-Year-Old Street Emerging at Troy Reveals the Scale of Its Roman City
Archaeologists at Troy are uncovering a major Roman street that once ran through the lower city, exposing part of an urban landscape shaped nearly 2,000 years ago at a place Romans closely associated with their own legendary beginnings. The street is emerging during the 2026 excavation season at the ancient site in northwestern Türkiye. Researchers…
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Britain’s Rutland Mosaic Reveals a Lost Trojan War Story
When a farmer’s quiet walk across a Rutland field during lockdown revealed the glint of ancient tesserae, no one imagined the discovery would reopen a lost chapter of the Trojan War. Yet five years later, researchers say the celebrated Ketton mosaic preserves a forgotten retelling of the conflict—one that vanished from the historical record more…
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Unique Mosaic of Trojan War Hero “Aeneas” Discovered
In the Kadirli district of Osmaniye, Turkey, a mosaic depicting “Aeneas,” the hero of the Trojan War and ancestor of the Roman people, was unearthed during the foundation excavation of a building. The mosaic was found in the ruins of a Roman-era villa. It has been reported that the mosaic depicting the Trojan War hero…