Burned ruins, broken weapons, and hastily buried human remains confirm signs of a sudden, violent attack, challenging the notion of a slow decline.

For Troy, a Planned Rise From Ruins County Intends To Fix Up House, Pursue Its History July 21, 2004 By Susan DeFord ...

Many of us have heard that the ruins of Troy are in Turkey, and while the Colossus of Rhodes crumbled long ago, the island still has its traces of Greek architecture.

A generation later, the Greeks defeated the Trojans, and Aeneas fled from the burning ruins of Troy with his elderly father on his back and his young son, Ascanius, at the end of his arm.

It's a bit like the ruins of Troy: Under one layer of history is another. At the top of one dig, the archaeologists found bits of golf balls, and in another place, shards of vinyl records.

The discovery of the ruins of Troy, where Odysseus, Achilles, Paris, Menelaus and other Greek heroes did battle, has led scholars to believe there is more to Homer's tales than just legend. ) ...