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

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. From the 15th to the 12th Century BCE, Greece’s Mycenaean ...

Roadworks in southern Greece have unearthed a rare Mycenaean grave thought to be well over 3,000 years old and containing important burial offerings including a gold chalice, the culture ministry said ...

A pioneering study uses computer simulation models to reconstruct the first roads of the Bronze Age in Greece and to understand their function within the trade and communication network of the ancient ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — The ancient Mycenaeans have a reputation as palace-builders and warriors, but they were also quite sophisticated cooks. More than 3,000 years ago, they used portable grill pits to make ...