The latest idea is based on accounts by ancient authors and concerns a meteorite that is said to have landed in the Hellespont region of northern Greece in 466-467BC. The space rock fell during ...

When I was right in the middle of the Hellespont, swimming like hell and heading hard out to the Aegean Sea, with ancient Troy ahead of me, and with the World War I Gallipoli battlefields right ...

Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion of Greece. It was to be his 'divine ... in preparing a vast expeditionary force. Across the Hellespont, the narrow channel of water separating Europe ...