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Animal Bones Uncover Neolithic Farming at Dispilio Settlement in Greece

Thousands of animal bones recovered from Dispilio, a Neolithic lakeside settlement in Greece, show how ancient farmers raised cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats more than 5,000 years a...

Beeswax Traces Reveal Early Beekeeping in Ancient Greece

New evidence of beekeeping and beeswax use in ancient Greece is emerging from pottery pulled out of a remote cave on the Greek island of Kythera. A recent study found chemical trac...

Minoan Textiles by Kathryn Gauci

  Minoan Textiles   For millennia, women in particular sat together, spinning, weaving and sewing, but because textiles are perishable, early textiles are not easy to find. Even...

Ancient Greece and Environment: A Relationship of Meaningful Respect

The people of ancient Greece have been known for many things, but have we ever thought about what their relationship with the environment looked like? The ancient Greeks are known...

Greece hands over group of teracotta statuettes to Egypt

Greece on Wednesday handed over to Egyptian authorities a group of terracotta statuettes believed to come from Egypt that were discovered in an Athens skip eight years ago and hand...

Greece returns group of Cypriot antiquities to Nicosia

Greece has repatriated to Cyprus a group of nearly 50 antiquities covering about 3,500 years of the island’s history that were originally part of a private collection, the Culture...

What a Bronze Age warrior packed for eternity

A celebrated Bronze Age warrior is coming to Athens. The National Archaeological Museum opens “The Pylos of Nestor: A Mycenaean Kingdom Revealed” on Monday, presenting the “Griffin...

How Did Megalithic Architecture Spread Across Europe?

Conny Waters -  AncientPages.com -  Patchwork families, where children from previous relationships or adopted and fostered children are raised together, are common today. Although...

Pasteli, the Sweet Snack of Greece, Dates Back to Homer

Pasteli, παστελι, the ancient Greek dessert, has very few ingredients, but it has a great deal of history behind it.

Neolithic Figurines Uncovered in Northeastern Anatolia

ESKISEHIR, TURKEY—Four headless terracotta figurines have been unearthed at Kanlitaş Höyük, a Neolithic mound in […] The post Neolithic Figurines Uncovered in Northeastern A...

Rare graves reveal a lost world of Bronze Age Europe hidden for 3,000 years

Scientists have uncovered remarkable new details about Bronze Age life in Central Europe by studying rare burials untouched by cremation. The research reveals communities experimen...

Greek Village Boasts True Descendants of Spartans

There is a Greek village in Mani, Peloponnese, called Neochori, where its residents boast they are true descendants of ancient Sparta.

Greek-Style Temple Excavated in Albania

SHKODRA, ALBANIA—According to a report in La Brújula Verde, the foundations of a monumental structure […] The post Greek-Style Temple Excavated in Albania appeared first on Archaeo...

The Secrets of the Ancient Neighborhood Beneath the Acropolis

The ancient neighborhood beneath the Acropolis Musum reveals life in ancient Athens long before the Parthenon and the sculptures on the Acropolis

Lost Roman Mining City in Spain Revealed Through Thousands of Pottery Fragments

Lost Roman Mining City in Spain Revealed Through Thousands of Pottery Fragments

Introducing children to the toys of ancient Greece

Across European classrooms, ancient Greek toys are finding new life through Greektoys, a program created by Sofia Pavlaki (photo), her husband Luis Santos and her sister Fotini.

The Mass Poisoning of Kirrha in Ancient Greece Was a Horrific War Crime

The mass poisoning of the city of Kirrha in Phocis, a few miles south of the sacred city of Delphi, around 595 BC, is an incident that stands out in Ancient Greece for its chilling...

Greece sent the art; Rome built the empire

An exhibition tracing ancient Greek art’s influence on Roman culture has opened at the Acropolis Museum, running through August 30.

Ancient DNA reveals how women helped transform prehistoric Europe

New DNA evidence shows that Europe’s hunter-gatherers and early farmers interacted far more closely than previously thought, with women likely playing a crucial role in spreading f...

Greece Boasts One of the Oldest Oak Trees in Europe

An ancient oak tree in northern Greece is believed to be among the oldest surviving tree of its kind in Europe. 

Ancient DNA reveals the mysterious collapse of Europe's megalith builders

DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were genetically unrelated, pointing to a major migration aft...

Lost for 2,500 years, the ancient Poseidon sanctuary emerges from the Greek marshlands with mysterious inscribed artefac...

Archaeologists Discover Prehistoric Mountain Cave Packed With Mysterious Green Mineral

A prehistoric Pyrenees cave may have been an early copper-processing camp repeatedly used for thousands of years, with archaeologists also uncovering child remains and symbolic jew...

Secrets from a Mycenaean warrior’s grave

Every so often they talk about other people – about scientists they admire, associates they value, Pylian locals they formed close friendships with.