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

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Roadworks in southern Greece have unearthed a rare Mycenaean grave thought to be well over 3,000 years old and containing important burial offerings including a gold chalice, the culture ministry said ...

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?

Up until now, a small minority of pottery from the earliest Mycenaean civilization has gotten nearly all of the attention. Work by University of Cincinnati doctoral candidate Jeffrey L. Kramer is ...

CHICAGO — The ancient Mycenaeans have a reputation as palace-builders and warriors, but they were also quite sophisticated cooks. More than 3,000 years ago, they used portable grill pits to make ...

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 ...

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 (Reuters) - Roadworks in southern Greece have unearthed a rare Mycenaean grave thought to be well over 3,000 years old and containing important burial offerings including a gold chalice, the ...