The mosaic is the rarest ever to be found due to how well-preserved it is. The colorful images show soldiers with swords, names of ancient Greek leaders and Amazons who found in the war.

As every mildly attentive high school graduate knows, the Trojan War started because one man stole another man's wife. Soon the Greeks sailed from across the Aegean Sea to Troy, from Europe to ...

Perhaps most famously, the Mycenaeans were the lead cast in Homer’s stories of the Trojan War, The Iliad and The ... The sword replica — which is slightly lighter than the original — was ...

As the film Troy shows, Trojan War narratives still tend to pivot on Helen and her tempestuous romance with Paris. ... and start asking what role the men who carried the swords and spears played.

One reason the Trojan War has struck such a chord is that, besides being an excellent story, it has long been suspected to have actually happened. Trustees of the British Museum.