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

New research shows that women might be represented in Mycenaean iconography instead of men, changing the interpretation of Mycenaean society.

In this first installment, Ganor investigates the famed linen armor of Ancient Greece, known as the linothorax.

He said in part: The Mycenaean Age as it now begins to detach itself from the darkness of the "Bronze Age" is the first efflorescence of the Western, as distinguished from the Eastern genius for ...

“Compared to sites in the Levant, in the Mycenaean cultural sphere ... to fashion nearly indestructible bronze tools such as axes, chisels, and swords that were instrumental in agriculture ...

German archaeologists are thrilled to have dug up a Bronze Age sword more than 3,000 years old which is extraordinarily well preserved. The bronze sword with an octagonal hilt was found in a grave ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of ... finding a shimmering bronze blade with the intricacies of an ornamental cartouche — the personal emblem used by ...

It dates to around 1500 B.C. during the Mycenaean era, which began in southern Greece in about 1750 B.C. and ended around 1050 B.C., soon after the Late Bronze Age collapse. The armor consists of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a more than 3,000-year-old bronze sword from a burial site in Germany — and the blade is in such pristine condition that it "almost still shines," said local ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm an archaeologist and classicist in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the ...