The Mycenaean Greeks were also real people, although the legendary characters in Homer’s works are fictitious, meant to ...

For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

Scholars Manage to Crack Only Three Words from Mysterious 4,000-Year-Old Clay Disk With Unknown Script Deciphering writing on ...

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 ...

Image caption, Artwork of a bull on a wall in Knossos Palace, Greece. After the Minoans came the Mycenaean civilisation. They were superb builders and traders, but they were also great soldiers.

I'm an archaeologist and classicist in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the ...