A surprising discovery in the Colombian Andes has uncovered the 6,000-year-old skeletons of a mysterious group of people.

Athena, a goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of Athens, was one of the most popular deities in the Greek ...

A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent.

Bronze Age life changed radically around 1500 BC in Central Europe. New research reveals diets narrowed, millet was ...

A new study combines A.I., radiocarbon dating and handwriting analysis to estimate new dates for some of the ancient scrolls, ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Lassithi is home to Minoan ruins, from the ancient city of Lato to the Palace of Zakros. Both are worth a visit, as is the former Venetian fortress and leper colony of Spinalonga, which was catapulted ...

Did the Mycenaeans really conquer Minoan Crete? If so, how and when did this happen? This article examines the evidence.

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Minoans may have created the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

More surprising were 50 stone seals intricately carved with ... Archaeologists have long debated the influence of Minoan civilization, which began to flourish in Crete around 2500 B.C., on the ...

The Minister of Culture stated that the Ministry is fully aware of the needs regarding the protection of cultural heritage ...