Essential archaeological sites

On the trail of the Greek, Muslim, Roman, Phoenecian, Arab, Spanish and Norman invaders

Homer called it "Trinachìe" ("Trinacria") and indeed in the imaginary geography of the Odyssey, Sicily appears to be the most likely of Ulysses’ landing places. Approaching the east coast of Sicily, the early Greek colonisers, emigrants from Mycenae, Megara, Nisea and Corinth, discovered, out of harm's reach, a rich, virgin land full of promise. Instead of ogres they found friendly natives, the Siculi and the Sicani peoples who had been... Follows