The Greek iron ages took place within this period. But since no documents are available, historians have only been able to ...
Major discoveries, from ancient tombs to submerged cities, reveal the incredible advancements of Greek civilization.
Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, a pre-eminent British archaeologist of prehistoric civilizations including the Cycladic, has ...
Featuring 270 artifacts from 14 Greek museums, the exhibition The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great opened at the ...
The language and culture of the Hellenistic world was Greek. That became the lingua franca of all of these subject peoples. It was to that world what English is to the modern world in many ways ...
These myths were created after Minoan civilization had declined, but still reflected the respect that later Greeks had for the people of Crete. Despite Minos’s mythological status, the historian ...
As the Egyptian civilization faded, the Greek one emerged around 700 BC. The Greek civilization prevailed until "the end of antiquity" around 600 AD. The Greeks were great philosophers and their ...
The palace at Knossos on Crete was an important centre for the Minoan civilization DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations. Researchers analysed genetic data ...
Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece, but the impact of its unique culture is impossible to ignore.