Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a time of enormous creativity and courage when ...

Does the eruption of Santorini appear in Greek mythology? This depends largely on which group can truly be identified as the ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greece is reopening a major archaeological site on the tourist island of Santorini, which was closed for nearly seven years after a roof collapsed, killing a Welsh visitor. The ...

Archaeologists have discovered an unusually sophisticated Early Bronze Age burial from over 4,000 years ago in Rafina, east ...

New research published in the journal PLOS One suggests that the traditional dates assigned to the Greek Bronze Age — and thus, the end of the Aegean civilization — may be wrong. The Bronze Age is ...

The Greek island of Aegina was home to a Late Bronze Age purple dye workshop, according to a new study. The Greek island of Aegina was home to a Late Bronze Age purple dye workshop, according to a ...

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A thousand years before the Parthenon, before the great pyramids of Egypt or Stonehenge in today’s England, there was Akrotiri, a city on today’s Santorini that was buried in ash from a volcano 3,600 ...

Archaeologists excavating a sanctuary on a Greek island have uncovered an ancient temple packed with gold jewelry, silver ...

For thousands of years, one color rose above all others — and was worth more than its weight in gold, according to a fourth-century imperial edict. Tyrian purple was a highly prized pigment developed ...

A Bronze Age painting on a Greek island shows a monkey from thousands of kilometres away in Asia. The finding suggests that ancient cultures separated by great distances were trading and exchanging ...