A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

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Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...

For thousands of years, the pomegranate has been an important food and medicine not only in Greece, but also in many other ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

A lavish tomb of a noblewoman discovered in ancient Greece includes a mysterious symbol of lost power.

Ancient DNA from Mycenaean livestock reveals a rare western Mediterranean lineage in pigs at Tiryns, offering new insight ...

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There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

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I spent most of the past 15 years translating the complete works of Plato from Ancient Greek into English, and these ...