Santorini's ancient name was Thira, and it became a significant centre of trade and culture in the Aegean, thanks to its ...

Old Fired Clay Disk Inscribed With Symbols From Crete Continues to Baffle Archeologists, Never Been Able to Decipher Phaistos ...

As a consequence, Rujm el-Hiri is likely to have rotated by about 40 meters (131 feet) over the past 4,000 years, which means its axes, entrances, and other features were originally constructed far ...

Once again, we review the archaeological discoveries of the year that has just ended. This time, we have selected 14 from ...

Contestants in the Vesuvius Challenge had to develop their own programs to interpret existing 3D scans of the coiled scroll, ...

Piece by piece, experts carefully transported the Phoenician vessel to dry land, where it will be studied and preserved Sarah Kuta January 8, 2025 2:07 p.m. In addition to the 1,800-year-old piece ...

From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data ...

Bronze Age Minoan ingots with unique markings that were recently discovered show vast trading links between Cyprus and ...

Ancient Greek women had their own festival, Haloa, where they honored three deities with drinking, dirty jokes, and huge phalluses.

While excavating the ancient Minoan palace of Phaistos in ... Others point to the Minoan civilization itself, arguing that the disk represents a unique moment of innovation in Cretan history.