One of the most captivating remnants of the ancient world is the Boxers Fresco from the Minoan settlement of Akrotiri on ...

The Romans went on to win the battle—a major milestone in their conquest of the Aegean world. Many other ancient civilizations also developed sophisticated systems for observing and interpreting ...

ATHENS, Greece – Unlike its larger, postcard-perfect neighbors in the Aegean Sea ... a sophisticated pre-Greek civilization with no written language that flourished 4,500 years ago and produced ...

Minos and his Cretan sea empire 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 ...

"He uncovered gold-rich tombs in the city of Mycenae, and since then, dozens more Mycenaean sites have been studied across mainland Greece and the Aegean Islands. The civilization, which lasted ...

These ancient Aegean people were mostly descended from ... and colleagues focussed on burials from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island of Crete from 2,600 to 1,100 BC, and ...

Let’s look at who they were and where they came from. The Sea Peoples appear on the historical scene when the Aegean civilizations collapsed, sometime around the 12th century BCE. The cause of ...

As an archaeological site, Delos is “exceptionally extensive and rich,” marked by multiple Aegean civilizations between the third millennium B.C.E. and early Christianity. The Terrace of the ...

Several centuries earlier, the great near-eastern civilizations of the Bronze Age ... harbor cities started to emerge in the eastern Aegean. They were mainly merchant oligarchies, often deeply ...