The Bronze Age of Greece was unknown until the end of the nineteenth century, when Heinrich Schliemann's excavations stunned the world by bringing to light the glamour of Mycenaean elite society. This ...

The archaeological sites of Mycenae and Tiryns are the imposing ruins of the two greatest cities of the Mycenaean civilization, which dominated the eastern Mediterranean world from the 15th to the ...

In 1956 he and John Chadwick published Documents in Mycenaean Greek, which gave an account of the decipherment, of the language of the tablets, of the society and economy revealed by the documents and ...

the Mycenaean. The excavator of Minos' palace at Knossos, who so dramatically found the key to the riddle of pre-classical Greece, has himself taken the lead in tracing the influence of the Minoan ...

But the influence of Steppe migrants on populations from southern Europe - including Greece - was much more modest. Getty Images The Mycenaeans established the first advanced civilization in ...

A recent analysis by archaeologist Nicoletta Antognelli Michel of the Technical University of Darmstadt has led to a ...