The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

The archaeological sites of Mycenae and Tiryns are the imposing ruins of the two greatest cities of the Mycenaean civilization, which dominated the eastern Mediterranean world from the 15th to the ...

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years ...

Excavations at Pylos, and at sites all across mainland Greece, have provided a great deal of evidence of the Mycenaeans in their prime. This research has revealed that at their peak they were tied ...

Show more First transmitted in 1958, Sir Mortimer Wheeler and scholars from the Hellenic Travellers' Club sail from Venice to Mycenae, Greece to determine why iconic historical sites along this ...

Image caption, Artwork of a bull on a wall in Knossos Palace, Greece. After the Minoans came the Mycenaean civilisation. They were superb builders and traders, but they were also great soldiers.

Peristeria's hill lies 8 km NE from Kyparissia. It was the richest urban center of Western Peloponnese during the early ...

Four local friends recently spent two weeks in Greece. Pictured here are (from left) Carol Karsch, Kathy Fravel, Betty Besal ...

I'm an archaeologist and classicist in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the ...