Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. From the 15th to the 12th Century BCE, Greece’s Mycenaean civilization played a major role in developing classical Greek culture.

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by Rick Steves, November 7, 2023 | Delphi, Epidavros and Mycenae are all within three hours of Athens—and all are well worth the trek on a trip to Greece. Read more here.

During the end of Greece’s Bronze Age, between approximately 1700 and 1100 B.C., Mycenaean civilization flourished throughout the Peloponnesian Peninsula.

Dimitri Nakassis's book project, Reassembling Mycenaean Greece, ca. 1650-1075 BCE, proposes a new way of understanding the Mycenaean world by taking apart interpretations premised on its essential ...

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.

The ancient kingdom of Assyria was located on the upper end of the Tigris River, an area that today is divided between Turkey and Iraq. The kingdom reached its height in the mid-600s BC, when the ...

Another important excavation restored the great medical center of the ancient Greek world, the Mayo Clinic of classical Greece. His located in a small secluded valley, at Epidaurus.

Ancient Greece’s biggest port is older than we thought New archaeological discoveries add 500 years to the history of this storied harbor. J. Besl/Hakai Magazine Mar 15, 2024 8:06 AM EDT ...