For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

The Mycenaean Greeks were also real people, although the legendary characters in Homer’s works are fictitious, meant to ...

The Geometric Period is a lesser known era in history. However, it ushered ancient Greece from the Dark Age to the Classical ...

It was found near the site of Mycenae, an ancient city about 70 miles west of Athens, and the center of the Mycenaean civilization, which dominated Greece from about 1600 to 1100 B.C.E. The ...

I'm an archaeologist and classicist in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the ...

Image caption, Artwork of a bull on a wall in Knossos Palace, Greece. After the Minoans came the Mycenaean civilisation. They were superb builders and traders, but they were also great soldiers.

Dimitri Nakassis (Ph.D. Texas 2006) studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the Mycenaean societies of Late Bronze Age Greece. His book, Individuals and ...

In the heart of the island of Sicily, surrounded by the natural majesty of the Anapo Valley, lies one of the most significant ...