The Geometric Period is a lesser known era in history. However, it ushered ancient Greece from the Dark Age to the Classical ...

Animated documentary on the early Achaean settlements and the first royal dynasties of the Mycenaean Greece. We walk you through the early Greek history of the Bronze Age, from c. 1700-1470 BCE. Early ...

The Mycenaean Civilization, blooming from approximately 1600 to 1100 BCE, is one of the cornerstones of ancient Greek history. It emerged on the mainland of Greece, notably around the city of Mycenae, ...

A worker who died when he fell from a ladder at a Cheltenham job site was the father of the construction company’s director, a court has heard. Minoan Constructions was sentenced at the ...

The Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations flourished on Crete and the Greek mainland during the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. Homer immortalized them in his two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Most larger Minoan towns were, in fact, fortified. A second widespread destruction of the palaces in about 1450 B.C., possibly at the hands of Mycenaeans from mainland Greece, resulted in a ...