While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

In 1956 he and John Chadwick published Documents in Mycenaean Greek, which gave an account of the decipherment, of the language of the tablets, of the society and economy revealed by the documents and ...

The Bronze Age of Greece was unknown until the end of the nineteenth century, when Heinrich Schliemann's excavations stunned the world by bringing to light the glamour of Mycenaean elite society. This ...

From Roman "fish scale" armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress.

To make a serious comparison between Confucianism and ancient Greek philosophy, one must look further back, to the many ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

A recent analysis by archaeologist Nicoletta Antognelli Michel of the Technical University of Darmstadt has led to a ...

Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable themes that run throughout this powerful ...

Its vibrant culture made a major impact on the rising new regional power: the Mycenaean Greeks, who lauded King Minos and Crete in their mythology. Linear B, the Cretan writing system adopted by ...

Archaeologists have uncovered remarkable new finds at the ancient temple of Poseidon in Greece, revealing a much larger ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...