The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

The Pylos Combat Agate, a small limestone-encrusted seal, is the most exciting treasure yet to come from the tomb of a Bronze-Age Greek warrior. The Minoan sealstone found in the tomb of the "Griffin ...

DNA research is shedding new light on the mysterious ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete and their counterparts on the Greek mainland, the Mycenaeans. The civilizations were Europe’s ...

The Minoan civilization flourished between roughly 2000 and 1500 B.C. on Crete and nearby islands. How did it come to an end?

I read Homer in High School. And slowly, in my college classes in ancient, medieval, and modern Greek history, I realized Homer’s epic poems were at the very core of Hellenic civilization. The more I ...

An analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that Ancient Minoans and Mycenaens were genetically similar with both peoples descending from early Neolithic farmers. They likely migrated from Anatolia to ...

Featuring 270 artifacts from 14 Greek museums, the exhibition The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great opened at the Capital Museum in Beijing on Wednesday. The items on display are distinct as ...

Classical Studies encompasses all the social, material, and intellectual culture of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, as they can be studied both in the original languages and in English. The ...

Ancient Greece is often credited with numerous innovations that have shaped our modern world. From philosophy and democracy ...