Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal tombs.

A team of archaeologists have unearthed five chamber tombs at Ayia Sotira, a cemetery in the Nemea Valley in Greece, just a few hours walk from the ancient city of Mycenae. The tombs date from ...

Archaeologists unearth gold-lined Mycenaean royal tombs in Greece The tombs offer insights into Mycenaean culture and trade connections.

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 ...

Two tombs That said, these newfound tombs are starkly different from the previously excavated burials, which dated to the early Mycenaean period (1600 B.C. to 1400 B.C.).

This 3,500-year-old tomb held the treasures of Greece's 'Griffin Warrior' Discovered in 2015, the warrior's intact tomb not only contained his remains but also weapons, gold, and jewels that all ...

In a major archaeological discovery, one of the largest Mycenaean tombs was brought into light this summer, on a mountainside in central Greece ...

A digital reconstruction revealed the face of a 3,500-year-old Mycenaean royal woman, providing a remarkable glimpse into the ancient world of Mycenae, centuries before the Trojan War and the time ...

In 1992, the discovery of a tomb leads to claims that the body buried there is King Odysseus. Is King Odysseus, the Trojan-horse-building genius in Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, merely a figure ...

The arc is decidedly downward, as much of it involves the stripping away of Mycenae's affiliations with the Homeric epics. Gere concludes with an inspiring guide to the citadel of Mycenae and the ...

THE beehive tomb or tholos at Mycenas known as the “Treasury of Atreus” is one of the most important monuments of the Bronze Age in Greece, and the finest example extant of Mycenæan ...