The Mycenaeans and Minoans of Bronze Age Greece adopted a variety of beauty practices to enhance their appearances.

This gold pendant was discovered in 1930 at the cemetery of Chrysolakkos, which means "pit of gold," in the ancient Minoan town of Malia in Crete. Although the famed archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans ...

As Greece builds to accommodate a rise in tourism and other development projects, unearthed antiquities complicate progress.

The rare ancient tomb of a wealthy Minoan woman has been discovered at a monumental archaeological complex on the Greek island of Crete. The cist grave—a small, coffin-like grave built using ...

PALAIKASTRO, Greece — Only this much is certain: About 3,100 years ago, the main port on the eastern edge of Crete was abandoned during the dying gasps of the Minoan civilization. What brought about ...

The eight-foot-deep pit contained two ancient coffins and an array of funerary vases. Lassithi Ephorate of Antiquities Sometime between 1400 and 1200 B.C., two Minoan men were laid to rest in an ...