A large Bronze Age debris deposit in Mycenae, Greece provides important data for understanding the history of animal resources at the site, according to a new study. A large Bronze Age debris deposit ...

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 ...

The Ancient Greek Dark Ages came after the powerful Mycenaean Era. But what actually were the Greek Dark Ages, and how did they end?

The Dendra armor, one of the oldest suits of bronze armor ever found, had been considered a purely ceremonial piece. It seemed impossible to use in battle due to its cumbersome design. It took over a ...

The 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowships were announced last week, and among the awardees is Dimitri Nakassis, a classicist at the University of Toronto who specializes in the archaeology of Bronze Age ...

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 ...

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 ...

A large Bronze Age debris deposit in Mycenae, Greece provides important data for understanding the history of animal resources at the site, according to a study published March 1, 2023 in the ...