The Trojan War: History or Myth?
Is the Trojan War history or myth? A question with a surprising amount of evidence to answer it.
Is the Trojan War history or myth? A question with a surprising amount of evidence to answer it.
Can we say with reasonable certainty that we know where the real city of Troy is located and what life was like there during the period of a possible Trojan War, that is, the Late Bronze Age?
The Hittites left behind large libraries of cuneiform clay tablets. I discuss the nitty-gritty of ancient systems of writing.
How the evidence shows surprisingly powerful ancient women to portray in my novel. Thought women were marginalized until the modern period? Think again!
Find out how I dress my royal characters from the Trojan and Hittite world–the evidence is a bit unusual!
Delve in the royal day of the Hittite Queen Puduhepa.
Medicinal plants and Bronze Age medicine.
A world revealed through a Bronze Age shipwreck off the southern coast of Turkey at Uluburun: treasures and trade patterns brought up from the sea floor by archaeologists.
An excerpted article from the Oriental Institute gives an overview of the Hittite Empire, its modern discovery, and the central role the Chicago Hittite Dictionary plays in Hittitology today.
In a guest post Laura Gill argues against the matrilineal tradition of kingship among the Mycenaeans. “In the absence of solid documentary evidence, proponents of the matrilineal tradition of kingship turn to the legends themselves to support their theory, and point to royal heiresses such as Helen of Sparta and Penelope, wife of Odysseus, as kingmakers. Let us look at the same legends, as well as further examples where Mycenaean royal women seem to hand power to men, to demonstrate that those women were the instruments rather than the wielders of political power.”