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 ...

Long dismissed as a remote backwater, Epirus preserves Mycenaean tombs, sacred landscapes, and one of Greece’s oldest sanctuaries to Zeus. This chapter explores how its mountains, myths, and marginal ...

AIDONIA, GREECE—According to an Ekathimerini report, a large, intact tomb dating to the early Mycenaean era (1650-1400 B.C.) has been discovered in a cemetery at the ancient site of Nemea in southern ...

American archaeologists have discovered two monumental royal tombs dating from about 3,500 years ago near a major Mycenaean-era palace in Greece’s southern Peloponnese region, the Greek culture ...

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A 1927 expedition opened a buried world on Cyprus, where copper wealth, an undeciphered script, and the rich graves of Enkomi reveal a late surge of Mycenaean presence. Set against the shockwaves of ...

When traveling in a country as old as Greece, ancient ruins can quickly go from magnificent to mind-numbing. Great – yet another nameless hill with more stony remnants of people from centuries past.

When Heinrich Schliemann incorrectly identified in 1876 one of the shaft graves at Mycenae as the ""tomb of Agamemnon,"" he revived a myth first created by the eighth-century B.C. inhabitants of the ...

In this undated photo provided by the Greek Culture Ministry on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019, an aerial view is seen of a 3,500-year-old tomb discovered near the southwestern Greek town of Pylos. The ...