UNESCO has officially added the Minoan palace centers of Crete to its World Heritage List, recognizing their global cultural ...

The secrets of Britain’s connection with the world’s least known ancient civilizations - How Bronze Age British industry contributed to Mediterranean civilization 33 centuries ago ...

Life, as they say, goes on. Until one day it doesn't. For ancient societies, without the means to predict natural disasters, destruction could often come suddenly and completely by surprise. Below are ...

Whilst the island of Crete may be a huge tourist destination, there’s so much more here than you might expect. The ancient city of Knossos was the place that ‘gave birth’ to the very first ...

Do the famous Bronze Age Minoans appear in Homer's Odyssey, perhaps as the Eteocretans or the rich Phaeacians?

A new DNA study revealed Monday that several parts of Ancient Greece encouraged its citizens to marry their first cousins, according to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

Ancient Egyptian mummies reveal what diseases afflicted people in the great civilization, as well as the protective role the Nile could play ...

The stone was found at an ancient archeological site where a “lost” civilization in Spain once lived centuries ago. Europa Press via Getty Images “This alphabet has 27 signs and is the only ...

Archaeologists in Crete have discovered an ancient Roman odeon that might have been used for events such as lectures, musical contests and city council meetings.

Study: Ancient Yersinia pestis and Salmonella enterica genomes from Bronze Age Crete. Image Credit: Microgen / Shutterstock.com In a recent Current Biology study, researchers utilize genomic ...

The large Aegean island of Crete and mainland Greece flourished during the Bronze age as well. Crete in fact built such a sophisticated civilization that it became nearly a paradigm for the ...