There are lots of ancient ruins to see in Greece, unsurprisingly, but European travel guru Rick Steves recommends these three particular sites.

The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the Greek mainland known for their impressive architecture, rich culture, and mysterious decline. Perhaps most famously, the Mycenaeans ...

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 ...

Mycenaean palatial centers disappeared around 1200 BCE, and the supplies of Dendra-type armor disappeared with them. Bronze Age warriors were often buried with their weapons, swords and spears ...

Anthony Grant/The New York Sun About the only thing that ancient Mycenae has in common with Marathonas is that whistling, haunting silence, but it is tuned to a different frequency, and you cannot ...

Details of life in Bronze Age Mycenae could lie at the bottom of a well The refuse dump was filled with animal remains, but not all creatures were handled the same. Laura Baisas Mar 2, 2023 10:00 ...

The Archaeological Site of Mycenae is located in the regional unit of Argolis in North-East Peloponnese. Mycenaean culture is inspired by the great poet Homer who composed the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Body armor from the Bronze Age was strong enough to protect a Mycenaean soldier in battle 3,500 years ago, according to a new study that had 13 soldiers fight in a replica of it for 11 hours.

In a first, researchers have applied modern sports science to help answer a century-old question: Did their armor give Bronze Age Greeks an outsized advantage on the battlefield? Scholars have ...

Dimitri Nakassis's book project, Reassembling Mycenaean Greece, ca. 1650-1075 BCE, proposes a new way of understanding the Mycenaean world by taking apart interpretations premised on its essential ...

The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the "Gold Mask of Agamemnon", but also for the beginning of export-oriented mass production of elaborately ...

During the end of Greece’s Bronze Age, between approximately 1700 and 1100 B.C., Mycenaean civilization flourished throughout the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Ruled by a conglomerate of palaces that ...