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The Trojan War is one of the most famous events in Greek mythology. It was a mighty, ten-year war between the Greeks and the...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five distinct eras, the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age and Hellenistic Age. By looking...

  You have probably seen the postcard of whitewashed houses gathered together overlooking the endless blue waters of the Aegean Sea countless times, and rightly...

In the rugged and sunny shores of ancient Greece, where philosophy reshaped our world and democracy took its first baby steps, clothing played a...

Plato's story of Atlantis is famously set a very long time ago in the past. The figure "9000 years before Solon" is thrown around...

For hundreds of years historians and archaeologists have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to...

The ancient Minoan palace of Zominthos on Crete located about 1,200 meters (nearly 4,000 feet) above sea level shows that Minoans were not just...

An anthropological DNA research project which sequenced the genes of ancient populations found that modern Greeks are genetically similar.

"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religions, our arts have their root in Greece," Percy Bysshe Shelley. By Demetri Kantarelis, Ph.D. Professor,...

Linear B, the enigmatic script of ancient Greece used by the Mycenaean civilization, has long captivated the minds of experts and enthusiasts alike. For decades,...