A team of scientists has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from prehistoric West Africa, dating back some 3,500 years ago. A team of scientists, led ...

A hive of honeybees on display at the annual Vermont Farm Show in Essex Junction, Vt. (AP Photo/Andy Duback, File) (CN) — A fresh look into ancient pottery fragments has revealed the earliest known ...

The peoples who lived on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age are known today as the Minoans, after Minos, a legendary king of Crete. The history of Minoan Crete is broken into Early, Middle, and ...

Archaeologists excavating a Minoan settlement have found the discarded remains of Hexaplex trunculus shells, used in the production of the color purple—as well as gold jewelry and copper vases. The ...

The major objective of the publications programme of the British School at Athens is to publish work by those conducting research using its facilities. The Annual therefore includes articles of short ...

Sandy McGillivray, an archaeologist studying the Minoan ruins of Palaikastro on the eastern shore of Crete, had never seen anything like it. While strolling along the beach, McGillivray noticed bits ...

New discoveries including gold ornaments and fine pottery at an ancient port city in Cyprus dating back more than 3,000 years indicate that the settlement was one of the Mediterranean’s most important ...

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from ...