The archaeological site of Phaistos, where one of the most emblematic Minoan palaces is located on Crete, is to undergo major ...

Minoans may have invented the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

Archaeologists have long debated the influence of Minoan civilization, which began to flourish in Crete around 2500 B.C., on the rise of Mycenaean society a thousand years later. Linear B tablets ...

The Minister of Culture stated that the Ministry is fully aware of the needs regarding the protection of cultural heritage ...

Near the town of Palaikastro, located at the eastern end of the island of Crete, lies the archaeological site of a city from ...

An international team of astronomers has detected a cosmic phenomenon never seen before—an object that emits simultaneous ...

By far the largest proportion of Volume II is devoted to the ancient civilization of Egypt because of its pre-eminent place in the early history of Africa. Read more in... Volume I deals with the ...

It is there, around 3400–3000 BC, that all the key elements of urban civilization first appear in one place: cities with monumental infrastructure and official bureaucracies overseeing agricultural, ...