This armor wasn't just for show. It could have seen deadly combat during the epic Trojan War.

The Lion of Kea, an Archaic-era sculpture seemingly growing out of the bedrock poses one of the most puzzling mysteries from ancient Greece.

The story of the twelve labors tells the tale of Heracles’s journey from a sinful pariah to the ancient world’s most revered ...

After months of recovery from the Palisades Fire, the Getty Villa reopens June 27 with a new exhibition on Mycenaean Greece ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door ...

A monumental Roman complex has been revealed in Athens, and the city is gaining another open-air archaeological site in its ...

open image in gallery The sculptures depict a man and woman standing side by side (Archaeological Park of Pompeii/Alfio Giannotti) The tomb’s main feature is a large wall, peppered with niches ...

The artist also drew on wall paintings from the time ... Clytemnestra, was queen of Mycenae in legend—and from where the poet Homer imagined the Greeks of the Trojan War setting out,” Hauser ...

They found a small bedroom with walls coated in stucco and decorated ... a written language of Mycenaean Greece that predated the Greek alphabet. Blegen told a journalist in 1962 of finding ...

From its origins in the Bronze Age to its abandonment during the Greek domination, Pantalica preserves in its rocky walls, its excavated tombs, and its cave dwellings the memory of a distant and ...

Ignore the gap in the wall to your left ... It's almost in the centre and can be found southwest of Mycenae. Inside, light a torch, turn left in the first room and break the planks to reveal ...

Excavations in the area have yielded spectacular works of art and craft, including goldwork of unparalleled beauty, carved seal stones, weapons, and wall paintings, offering an in-depth look at the ...