Long dismissed as a remote backwater, Epirus preserves Mycenaean tombs, sacred landscapes, and one of Greece’s oldest sanctuaries to Zeus. This chapter explores how its mountains, myths, and marginal ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered two large chamber tombs dated to around 1300 BC in an important Mycenaean Greece-era burial ground. The discovery is so rare because the tombs are completely intact and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. From the 15th to the 12th Century BCE, Greece’s Mycenaean ...

Hidden in the Boeotian plains, Gla is an enormous Cyclopean-walled citadel—still standing after 3,000 years—yet with almost no clear explanation for who built it or why. Its rise seems tied to 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 ...

About 1.5 hours outside Athens, Mycenae is one of the essential stops for any visitor to Greece with an interest in ancient history. Arriving here, you're awed not just by the site and the ruins, but ...

Archaeologists recently discovered two magnificent 3,500-year-old royal tombs in the shadow of the palace of the legendary King Nestor of Pylos. It’s not clear exactly who the tombs’ owners were, but ...

Back in 1876, a German archaeologist found a golden mask he thought belonged to king Agamemnon. It is one of the highlights of a major exhibition on Mycenaean culture, one of Europe's earliest ...

A famous Mycenaean suit of armor was not just ceremonial, but suitable for extended combat, according to a study published May 22 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andreas Flouris of the ...

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 ...

Remnants of a Mycenaean-era palace on the plain of Sparta have brought to light a number of finely-decorated artifacts, bronze swords, and wall frescoes, according to a press release from the Greek ...