On the Greek island of Ithaca, archaeologists recently uncovered new evidence that suggests ancient travelers once made real-life pilgrimages to the supposed home of Odysseus, Homer ’s famous wanderer ...

In 2008, it will start excavating, probably at Odysseus’ palace and Ithaca city. * Maugh reported from Los Angeles and Stobart from London. More to Read .

The rocky hills of Ithaca, home to olive groves and old Greek legends, have now yielded their most evocative secret: the possible sanctuary of Odysseus. At a site known for over two centuries as ...

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

An 8th BC century palace which Greek archaeologists claim was the home of Odysseus has been discovered in Ithaca, fuelling theories that the hero of Homer's epic poem was real.

Greek archaeologists believe they have discovered the palace of Odysseus and his wife Penelope, the only one of the palaces mentioned in Homer’s Epic poems that hadn’t been found, the Athens ...

LONDON — The long-lost city of Ithaca, home of the legendary hero Odysseus in the “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” is on the island of Cephalonia off the western shore of Greece, ...

Odysseus’s palace, if that’s what we’re looking at, is very nearly dust. For the duration of the trip, I’m too embarrassed to confess to our hosts that I was not going to mention Homer.