Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

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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 were ...

Artistic photo showing the replica of the Dendra armor used in the study. Photo credit: Andreas Flouris and Marija Marković. Permission required for reproduction ...

Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

Dimitri Nakassis was awarded an National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 2023 for a book project, Reassembling Mycenaean Greece, ca. 1650-1075 BCE, which proposes a new way of understanding ...

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 ...

Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a time of enormous creativity and courage when ...

From 1868 until his death twenty-two years later, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, devoted his life to finding evidence of the heroic Greek civilization described in Homer's books The ...

A multitude of mysteries remain unsolved about the ancient Greek world, providing more questions than answers.