At this time, all pottery was hand-made ... Many new pottery styles were introduced in the Mycenaean period (9). Different from the monochrome and simple designs of Middle Helladic pottery was the ...

"For the first time, we are looking into the face of a woman from a kingdom associated with Helen of Troy—Helen's sister, Clytemnestra, was queen of Mycenae in legend—and from where the poet ...

For a long time, archaeologists couldn't figure out how ancient Greeks used the cookware found at excavation sites from the Mycenaean period, which lasted from 1600 to 1100 B.C. The mysterious ...

Dimitri Nakassis's book project, Reassembling Mycenaean Greece, ca. 1650-1075 BCE, proposes a new way of understanding the Mycenaean world by taking apart interpretations premised on its essential ...

Ancient Greek body armor was tough enough to protect a Mycenaean soldier in battle 3,500 years ago, according to a new study.

No house wall from that period would have that strength ... we had found two steps before of a similar staircase, but this time we found a whole staircase." According to Walberg, the staircase ...

"The efficacy and variety of Mycenaean swords and spears has long ... "were some of the best equipped" soldiers during that time period, the researchers said. "Add the combination of armored ...

Although the Iklaina site boasted a palace during the early Mycenaean period, by the time of the tablet, the settlement had been reduced to a satellite of the city of Pylos, seat of King Nestor ...

Mycenae and its civilisation gave its name to an entire historical period between the 17th and ... The settlement was excavated for the first time by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who ...