Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707– 2007

15 September – 2 December 2007

This exhibition explores the work and achievement of the Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London from its foundation in the early eighteenth century to the present day. Find out more...

Making History - Antiquaries in Britain

Where was Homer's Ithaca?

Monday 29 October 2007

For thousands of years people thought that Troy was imaginary. Then the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavated it in the 1870s. It is south-west of Istanbul and its location matches Homer's description in the Iliad precisely.

So could Homer's Ithaca also be a real location? And can modern geology combined with classical research and satellite technology help us to locate it?

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Ithaca