A small ceramic fragment, unearthed in a settlement near the Acropolis, reveals a unique pictorial scene that suggests a ceremony to invoke rain, shedding new light on the religious beliefs and ...

Scientists have obtained genetic material from the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans, who lived three to five thousand years ago.

A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete, where the first European state flourished during the ...

GOLD loot and a bloody ancient family feud make Mycenae, a fortified hill in the Peloponnese, unique among Greece's Bronze Age sites. The visible remains are impressive too—walls made of giant ...

An analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that Ancient Minoans and Mycenaens were genetically similar with both peoples descending from early Neolithic farmers. They likely migrated from Anatolia to ...

Long before Homer wrote the Iliad, the real-life progenitors of the epic poem's characters might have visited a small outpost on the Greek coast. Archaeologists have discovered a spectacularly ...

Pottery was produced in Greece as early as the Neolithic period, but the tradition of decorated ceramic vessels in Greece developed more quickly starting in the Bronze Age, a period that began around ...