Two ancient chamber tombs have been uncovered in southern Greece which date back to the Late Mycenaean Period (1,400-1,200 B.C.) according to the nation's Ministry of Culture and Sport. Archaeologists ...

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Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a time of enormous creativity and courage when ...

New insights reveal where Bronze Age Mycenae's gold may have originated, from Thrace to Egypt and further afield.

A rare set of Mycenaean boar’s tusk helmets, the distinctive Bronze Age headgear famously described in a Homeric epic, has reportedly been uncovered in southwestern Greece near Pylos. The find is ...

Dimitri Nakassis was awarded an National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 2023 for a book project, Reassembling Mycenaean Greece, ca. 1650-1075 BCE, which proposes a new way of understanding ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Monuments at the archaeological site of Mycenae have not been damaged by a wildfire that swept through the area, despite blackening the entrance to the ancient citadel, Greece's ...

The Cycladic, the Minoan, and the Mycenaean cultures define the Bronze Age of Greece, 3,100-1,000 BCE. This was a period of flourishing architecture, craftmanship, agriculture, sanitation, including ...

A plane drops water during a wildfire in the ancient site of Mycenae, Greece, some 140 kilometers (90 miles) south of Athens, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. The fire that broke out at the Mycenae, one of ...