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The Getty in LA will display exquisite artifacts from archaeological excavations of Greece's Mycenaean civilization.
The Getty Villa Museum in the Pacific Palisades is just weeks away from reopening after the Palisades Fire forced it to ...
The reopening comes with a major new show: The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece, the first major North ...
A recent archaeological study has shed new light on the social structure of ancient Mycenaean communities, suggesting that these societies were less elitist and more egalitarian than previously ...
"For the first time, we are looking into the face of a woman from a kingdom associated with Helen of Troy—Helen's sister, Clytemnestra, was queen of Mycenae in legend—and from where the poet ...
Ruled by a conglomerate of palaces that oversaw regional kingdoms, Mycenaean society was dominated by war and hostility; various kings, including Agamemnon from Mycenae and Nestor of Pylos ...
A team of researchers has analyzed more than 165 gold objects found in four monumental tombs in the Bay of Volos, in the Greek region of Thessaly, revealing fascinating details about how Mycenaean ...
Homer calls Odysseus “King of the Ithacans.” But there are no Mycenaean ruins on modern-day Ithaki. Homer calls Odysseus “King of the Ithacans.” But there are no Mycenaean ruins on modern ...
After months of recovery from the Palisades Fire, the Getty Villa reopens June 27 with a new exhibition on Mycenaean Greece ...