Did the Greeks really use chariots how Homer describes in his account of the Trojan War, or did Homer just misrepresent ...

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...

The 10 different finds included ships from 3,000 B.C., the Classical period of 460 B.C., the Hellenistic period of about 100 B.C. to 100 A.D., the Roman years of 200 B.C., and the Byzantine period ...

Researchers have discovered 10 shipwrecks, including one estimated to be more than 5,000 years old, off the coast of Greece, along with scattered ancient artifacts from around the globe. Using ...

This period of destruction and upheaval marked the beginning of the Iron Age,” the researchers added. The findings appeared in the journal PLoS ONE . This article originally appeared in May 2024 ...

For centuries, the small Greek island of Kasos served as a hub for international trade, welcoming ships from around the world ...

Dating the fountain to the Mycenaean palace period seems highly probable ... underscoring the importance of this area in ancient times," noted Popular Science. Archaeologists have been exploring the ...