Over a few short months in 1871, Heinrich Schliemann achieved a task that had eluded literature’s fiercest ensemble of warriors: he breached the supposedly impregnable walls of Troy. To do so ...
Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...
Discovered within what has been called a "spectacular dining room" with unusual black walls, these frescoes provide an ...
The Hittites mention two kings of Troy: Walmu and Alaksandus. The Hittites draw up a treaty with king ... Large siege engines designed to batter the walls, or pry away bricks or stones, were ...
Much of the new evidence comes from an area known as the Western Sanctuary, which is located just to the west of the citadel walls ... helmet Troy’s storied past continued to draw Greek visitors ...
In Pittsburgh, entire houses have been converted into individual art installations filled with unusual objects. A new house ...
The new outsized little show at the Arts Center of the Capital Region has a perfectly convoluted title: “Little Brown Jug + Dig Deeper: [some] Art, Science, and History of Troy Clay.” It mixes soils, ...
The five projects dedicated to these were: the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), the Historical Records Survey (HRS), the ...
For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...
On the opposite wall reside just as many customized cigar ... If the interior is transformative, the exterior is not. All four Troy Hill Art Houses in this collection have purposely remained ...
Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable themes that run throughout this powerful ...
Mark Dion recently debuted 'Mrs. Christopher's House' a permanent art installation that transformed a Pittsburgh home.