The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the ... Researchers also developed a replica of a Mycenaean cruciform sword, which included a straight guard and a pommel that forms ...

Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, is no ordinary archaeological site. Discovered in 1939, it stunned historians with its 7th-century ship burial, filled with golden treasures, finely wrought weapons, and an ...

I’m diving into the ANCIENT Viking Sword that used technology from the FUTURE – the Ulfberht Viking Sword! Dating from 800 to ...

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.

From the sleek, deadly triremes to the colossal tessarakonteres, ancient Greek ships inspired modern ship design.

Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo. The site, known as the Sanctuary of Apollo, is located in a remote ...

Ancient Greek mercenaries were a ubiquitous force on the battlefields of the ancient Mediterranean where they fought for ...

Archaeologists recently made numerous "spectacular" discoveries at a long-forgotten temple to an Ancient Greek god, according to local officials. The Department of Antiquities in Cyprus shared a ...

These spectacular stone structures represent some of the most significant depictions of the religious and funerary practices of an ancient society that drew on both its Greek and Persian heritage.

In ancient Greece, Olympic victors were crowned with olive branches, while Homer referred to the antioxidant-rich juice as “liquid gold” in his epic poems. Today, Greece remains one of the ...

As Holiday says: “If Stoicism is making you an asshole, you’re doing it wrong.” Rough number of ancient philosophers associated with Stoicism, beginning around the third century B.C. In ...