That said, a unique aspect of the Mycenaean civilization was their tombs. The Mycenaean civilization drew some cultural elements from the Minoan civilization that peaked from about 2000 BCE to ...

The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the Greek mainland known for their impressive architecture, rich ...

Crammed with artifacts, the grave offers up new insights into the origins of the Mycenaean culture whose mythical heroes starred in the Trojan War. The Griffin Warrior’s tomb is located near ...

Based on their style, Davis and Stocker are confident that the remains date to about 1500 B.C. “To find an unrobbed and rich Mycenaean tomb is very rare,” says Cynthia Shelmerdine, a classics ...

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 ...

When traveling in a country as old as Greece, ancient ruins can quickly go from magnificent to mind-numbing. Great – yet another nameless hill with more stony remnants of people from centuries past.

In 1991, Makis Metaxas, a local politician on the Greek island of Kefalonia, discovers a 3000-year-old Mycenaean tomb. However, the discovery is soon embroiled in controversy, and Makis embarks on ...

The tomb had been excavated since the 1950s ... In Homer's epic poems, Mycenae is ruled by the mythical King Agamemnon, who led the Greek forces in the Trojan War. The city is located on a ...

The obvious wealth of the tombs was based on the local production ... including the Minoans on Crete, the Mycenaeans in Greece and the ancient Egyptians. You may like Archaeologists discover ...

The Dendra armor, a full-body bronze plate suit made by the Mycenaeans in 1450 BCE, was found in a tomb in the early 1960s in the village of Dendra, in southern Greece, just a few kilometers from ...

"The development of the state by the Mycenaean was indigenous to Greece," Davis said. Among the remains studied for ancient DNA analysis was that of the Griffin Warrior, whose tomb was discovered ...