Does the recent digital reconstruction of a Mycenaean woman really depict her accurately, or is it more fantasy than fact?

The Mycenaean Greeks were also real people, although the legendary characters in Homer’s works are fictitious, meant to explore themes of heroism, war, and human nature. Now, a new and exciting ...

A digital reconstruction revealed the face of a 3,500-year-old Mycenaean royal woman, providing a remarkable glimpse into the ancient world of Mycenae, centuries before the Trojan War and the time ...

The emergence of the Sea Peoples in the Late Bronze Age during a period of massive upheaval remains a mystery.

Dimitri Nakassis (Ph.D. Texas 2006) studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the Mycenaean societies of Late Bronze Age Greece. His book, Individuals and ...

Image caption, Artwork of a bull on a wall in Knossos Palace, Greece. After the Minoans came the Mycenaean civilisation. They were superb builders and traders, but they were also great soldiers.

I'm an archaeologist and classicist in the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the ...