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The ancient city of Troy was rebuilt over itself for more than 4,000 years

The landscape around Troy does not immediately suggest a single ancient city preserved in isolation. The ground rises gradually at Hisarlık, a mound shaped less by nature than by repeated human occupation. Stone walls appear beside broken foundations from entirely different eras. Sections of the Earth contain traces of settlements…

The Times of India

Why was an Egyptian mummy stuffed with a fragment of Homer’s Iliad?

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body, but inside the mummy’s abdomen. But the real surprise isn’t just where the fragment was found. It’s how it got there. To understand, we must go back –…

The Conversation

TCS Bets Big On 'Physical AI' With New Michigan Centre As Race To Automate Manufacturing Heats Up

Tata Consultancy Services unveils its seventh Gemini Experience Centre in Troy, Michigan, focusing on Physical AI for manufacturing, in collaboration with Google Cloud.

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Epstein Files, Keeping Helen of Troy Hot, and Stolen Land

Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss the outrages of the week, including Jeffrey Epstein, Billie Eilish, and DoorDash.

Reason

Rethinking Troy: how years of careful peace, not epic war, shaped this bronze age city

Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.

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A new Australian production of Troy is bold, uncompromising theatre for our times

The story of Troy has been told for three millennia. Capricious deities, military clashes, legendary heroes and a famous wooden horse – a gift to the city that ultimately brings about its ruination – the mythology offers timeless themes of hubris, betrayal, and the devastating cost of war.

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The legend of Troy explained

The Trojan War is a legend that sprang from a distant memory of a real Greek incursion into the Bronze Age city of Troy (in modern day Türkiye). This may have taken the form of annual piracy raids and/or encounters based on control of the Aegean Sea.

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Troy’s fall was partly due to environmental strain – and it holds lessons for today

Sometimes the seeds of collapse are sown in the very soil of prosperity. Beneath the ancient city of Troy’s shining walls, the earth quietly cracked under the weight of its ambition.

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NFL Players from Troy HS (Troy, OH)

An updated list of all NFL Players from Troy High School in Troy, Ohio.

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Eric Bana: ‘I’m happy to be killed off in something – it’s just more interesting’

INTERVIEW: The Australian star of ‘Chopper’ and ‘Troy’ speaks to Adam White about his new Netflix mystery ‘Untamed’, the failures of ‘Hulk’, and the frustrating controversy that surrounded his Steven Spielberg film ‘Munich’

The Independent UK

The Return: how each new retelling of The Odyssey opens up the worlds of the women in this epic

Waves crash across Ithaca’s rocky shore. “The city of Troy has fallen,” we are told, as the shuttle on Penelope’s loom flickers across the screen. “On the island of Ithaca, Queen Penelope still longs for the return of her husband Odysseus.” The camera then cuts to the wreckage of a…

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‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey

The actor and director on why The Return took 30 years to make, their joy at persuading Juliette Binoche to join them – and the punishing regime that earned Fiennes his battle-scarred physique

The Guardian - UK

Uncorking the past: new analysis of Troy findings rewrites the story of wine in the early bronze age

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research has established for the first time. Colleagues at the University of Tübingen and I have discovered that wine was also enjoyed by the common folk, independent of upper-class…

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£6,300 Treatment Ends in Horror: Toddler 'Who Loved Life' Dies in Oxygen Chamber Explosion

Thomas lost his life after the chamber he was in exploded at The Oxford Centre in Troy, Michigan, while his mother, Annie Cooper, watched helplessly.

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Cubs sign utility man Jon Berti

Cubs sign utility man Jon Berti. The native of Troy, Michigan played for the New York Yankees this past season.

The Independent UK

Drunk driver found asleep at wheel in Troy

Police officers arrested a drunk driver found asleep at the wheel in Troy, Michigan.

The Independent UK

Long lost North African civilisation ‘as big as Troy’ could rewrite Mediterranean history

Largest agricultural complex in Africa outside of the Nile region helped shape the western Mediterranean world during fourth millennium BC

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Tragic Family Shooting Ends In Bridge Standoff

Tragic incident in Troy, NH as Trent Weston fatally shoots his family, leading to a fatal standoff on the Piscataqua Bridge.

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IDs released but questions linger after family tragedy that ended on a bridge

Police say a family of three had recently moved into a duplex in Troy, New Hampshire, before violence erupted this week

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The Voyage Home is a fierce and chilling end to Pat Barker’s Women of Troy trilogy

The legend of Troy – a city sparking with fire, a cataclysmic war and a refugee crisis – always has something more to offer writers looking for inspiration. The unspeakable horrors of conflict. The brutalities written on women’s bodies. The journey that, for the victors, means a voyage home, and…

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‘You can’t murder a people and walk away scot-free.’ In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker explores morality in war

The first volume of Pat Barker’s trilogy of the Trojan conflict starts with an epigraph taken from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain: “All of European literature springs from a fight”.

WhatToWatch

I watched a divisive historic movie on Netflix with 53% on RT — and it deserves a second chance

Troy sits at just 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, but having re-watched it on Netflix, I think it deserves a second chance.

PC Gamer

Total War: Pharaoh Dynasties has quietly become one of the best historical Total War games ever

One of the biggest updates in the history of the franchise has left us with a rich Bronze Age sandbox.

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Happy 50th birthday to the UPC barcode – no one expected you would revolutionize global commerce

The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio.

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Local News Close-Up: Capital Gains in Albany, New York

Albany-Schenectady-Troy DMA has government, lots of mountains, easy access to major markets

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