New study reveals how 4,000-year-old Minoan houses used clever designs long before Crete’s first palaces reshaped the ancient ...

Carved on a disk about the size of a dinner plate was writing in an unknown language. The debate has raged for a century: Is ...

Winter, John and Merrillees, R. S. 1972. "Bronze Age Trade between the Aegean and Egypt: Minoan and Mycenean Pottery from Egypt in Brooklyn." Miscellanea Wilbouriana, I 101–133.

The biggest puzzle of all is what caused the apparently peaceful and well-organized Indus civilization to collapse over the ...

Rare relics of Ancient Rome were recently found at a fort in northern England — including a 2,000-year-old piece of fruit. In an announcement from the Northumberland National Park, officials said in ...

Ida Redbird dug the clay she needed for the creation of her pots from the banks of the Gila River. Some say she tasted the gritty sand, and if it was too salty, she discarded it and moved to another ...

The volcanic eruption of Santorini rocked the Mediterranean and changed history. Crucial—and chilling—evidence from the ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

A small ceramic fragment, unearthed in a settlement near the Acropolis, reveals a unique pictorial scene that suggests a ceremony to invoke rain, shedding new light on the religious beliefs and ...