The Minoan civilization flourished between roughly 2000 and 1500 B.C. on Crete and nearby islands. How did it come to an end?

Featuring 270 artifacts from 14 Greek museums, the exhibition The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great opened at the Capital Museum in Beijing on Wednesday. The items on display are distinct as ...

Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a time of enormous creativity and courage when ...

DNA research is shedding new light on the mysterious ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete and their counterparts on the Greek mainland, the Mycenaeans. The civilizations were Europe’s ...

The Dorian invasion theory hypothesizes that a large-scale migration or invasion was responsible for dramatic changes to Bronze Age Greece.

Greek culture continues to fascinate as a Chinese translation of the book, How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator, confirms. Meanwhile, exhibitions on all aspects of Greek culture prove ...

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Olympeion: temple of the Olympian Zeus near the Acropolis of Athens. It took several centuries for the construction of the temple. The Roman Emperor Hadrian finished it in 131-132. Photo: Evaggelos ...