troy (extinct city)

Reviews the evidence that the story of the lost city of Atlantis, a once mighty island empire vanquished by the sea, rests not on fantastic myth but on an actual civilization. On the Greek island of Thera, three thousand years ago a highly advanced culture was destroyed by the most violent volcanic eruption in human history. Other myths and their historical roots, including the Trojan horse and the man-eating Mintoaur, are explored with visits to Crete, Turkey and Greece.

The last weeks of the Trojan War find the women sick of tending the wounded, men tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses trying to find ways to stir things up.

The Trojan War and archaeological evidence from a site believed to have once been Troy.