Ancient Eleutherna, located on the foot of Mount Ida on Crete, is revealing archaeological treasures from the dawn of Greek civilization.

Island are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unsolved mysteries The world’s most mysterious secrets Ancient ...

Co-organized by the Greek embassy in China and the Beijing Olympic City Development Association, the exhibition, traces over ...

But little is known about the earlier period around 1500 B.C., when Mycenaean society was taking shape. Archaeologists have long debated the influence of Minoan civilization, which began to ...

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Given the power and prominence of King Minos in the legendary history of Crete, it was easy to assume that this ...

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In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.

Follow Jade Skirt as she explains some of the things the ancient Maya believed, in this BBC Bitesize year 5/6 primary history guide.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Maya weavers worked mainly with cotton, which had to be washed and picked clean of seeds. This was hard work ...

In a 2017 study in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers looked at the ancient DNA of five Canaanites who lived between 3,650 and 3,750 years ago and who were buried in Sidon, an ...

Ancient Mesopotamia, centered in present-day Iraq, occupies a unique place in the history of human culture. It is there, around 3400–3000 BC, that all the key elements of urban civilization first ...