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

Archaeologists recently discovered two magnificent 3,500-year-old royal tombs in the shadow of the palace of the legendary King Nestor of Pylos. It's not clear exactly who the tombs' owners were ...

The Tomb of Agamemnon Cathy Gere. Harvard University Press, $19.95 ... Gere concludes with an inspiring guide to the citadel of Mycenae and the Mycenaean treasures in Athens.

The tombs date from 1350 – 1200 BC, the era in which Mycenae thrived as a major centre of Greek civilization. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed ...

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 ...

The burial site at Aidonia—which contains around 20 Mycenaean era tombs dating to between 1,700 B.C. and 1,100 B.C.—was first excavated in the late 1970s.

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.). These earlier burials contained ...

The two new tholos tombs were discovered by Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker, a husband and wife team of archaeologists at the University of Cincinnati who have been working at the site since 1992.

One of the largest Mycenaean tombs was brought into light this summer, on a mountainside in central Greece. It is a major archaeological discovery, which will shed new light on Mycenaean funeral ...

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 ...

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.). These earlier burials contained ...