If striking gold is great, striking ancient gold must be better. While digging for artifacts at the Palace of Nestor in southern Greece, an archaeological team headed up by researchers from the ...

The Mycenaean period is a fascinating and crucial part of Greek history. It predated the empire, lasting from 1600 to 1100 BC, but remained the stuff of legends for generations.

Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal tombs.

An ancient Greek palace filled with cultic objects and clay tablets written in a lost script may be the long-lost palace of Mycenaean Sparta, one of the most famous civilizations of ancient Greece ...

SPARTA, Greece, Aug. 25 (UPI) --On Tuesday, Greece's culture ministry announced the discovery of an ancient Mycenaean palace near Sparta. The palatial remnants were unearthed at the archaeological ...

Linear B Tablet of the Pilos Palace. Credit: Wikimedia Commons The comparison between the two tablet series reveals a different picture of Mycenaean society. While pa-ki-ja-ne presents a marked ...

Dimitri Nakassis (Ph.D. Texas 2006) studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the Mycenaean societies of Late Bronze Age Greece. His book, Individuals and ...