DNA evidence suggests that living Greeks are indeed descendants of the ancient Mycenaeans, who ruled Greece from 1,600 BC to 1,200 BC.

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Mr. Louis Dyer, M. A., of Oxford, England, gave the first of his three lectures on "Recent Discoveries in Crete" at the Fogg Lecture Room last night, taking for his special subject, "The Mycenaean Age ...

An analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that Ancient Minoans and Mycenaens were genetically similar with both peoples descending from early Neolithic farmers. They likely migrated from Anatolia to ...

An understanding of the production and use of art is important for grasping how societies are transformed into civilizations. This lecture explores the question of what do we mean when we use terms ...

A relief-drawing from the Palace of Sennacherib, Nimroud, Nineveh. (Wikimedia Commons TYalaA CC BY-SA 4.0) The first mention of Assyria by ancient Greeks was in the middle of the 7th century BC, ...

Archaeologists recently discovered two magnificent 3,500-year-old royal tombs in the shadow of the palace of the legendary King Nestor of Pylos. It's not clear exactly who the tombs' owners were, but ...

THE beehive tomb or tholos at Mycenas known as the “Treasury of Atreus” is one of the most important monuments of the Bronze Age in Greece, and the finest example extant of Mycenæan architecture. Its ...

From 1868 until his death twenty-two years later, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, devoted his life to finding evidence of the heroic Greek civilization described in Homer's books The ...

Obsidian from the island of Milos, found in Franchthi Cave, shows seafaring in Greece began over 11,000 years ago in the ...

Modern cities can learn from the fate of the collapsed civilizations at Ugarit and Mycenae. By Annalee Newitz Contributing Opinion Writer About 3,190 years ago, a merchant in Emar, a trading outpost ...