New research from Mochlos reveals what the Minoans ate and how food shaped ritual, trade and daily life in ancient Crete.

A secret Minoan fire technique may explain how Bronze Age artisans in Crete changed serpentinite vases from blue to red.

Europe wrestles winter back into its suitcase and a slew of long-haul favourites sit neatly between rainy seasons and peak humidity.

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...

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History loves a good mystery. And honestly, few things are more unsettling than an entire civilization, with millions of ...

For decades, historians have considered fishing a minor economic activity in the Mycenaean civilization of the Bronze Age. The absence of references to this practice in the Linear B tablets, the ...

Researchers have estimated how much the home's owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of ...

A recent underwater archaeological expedition off the coast of the Greek island of Kythera has yielded the discovery of a small marble decorative fragment. Interest in this piece of stone has been ...

A 2,400-year-old in situ collapse at Selinunte preserved a room, enabling archaeologists to create a controlled 3D ...

Since 1863, archaeologists have made more than 100 plaster casts, which show how victims died after Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...