A thousand years before the Parthenon, before the great pyramids of Egypt or Stonehenge in today’s England, there was Akrotiri, a city on today’s Santorini that was buried in ash from a volcano 3,600 ...

“Both ancient artworks and genetics point to Bronze Age Greece, in approximately 1700 BCE or earlier, as the origin of saffron’s domestication,” Ludwig Mann, lead author of the study from Technische ...

Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a time of enormous creativity and courage when ...

The first civilisations to build monumental palaces and urban centres in Europe are more genetically homogenous than expected, according to the first study to sequence whole genomes gathered from ...

UC scholars presented ancient Greek findings at the Met, revealing discoveries from a 3,500-year-old warrior's grave.

UC Classics Department Head Jack Davis and Senior Research Associate Sharon Stocker. The discovery of what is now known as the "Griffin Warrior" has landed high praise for two researchers from the ...

A Bronze Age metropolis discovered in Kazakhstan reveals advanced urban planning and large-scale metal production in the ...

A thousand years before the Parthenon, before the great pyramids of Egypt or Stonehenge in today’s England, there was Akrotiri, a city on today’s Santorini that was buried in ash from a volcano 3,600 ...

Skeleton of one of the two individuals who lived in the middle of the Bronze Age and whose complete genome was reconstructed and sequenced by the Lausanne team. It comes from the archaeological site ...