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

What’s the ancient equivalent of today’s iconic plastic red Solo cup, beloved at frat parties and picnics alike? It might be this disposable cup used to drink wine at feasts 3,500 years ago, which ...

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 ancient tomb contained bodies of two Minoan Bronze Age men. One of two skeletons from an ancient Minoan tomb discovered in Crete. Courtesy of the Greek Ministry of Culture. Sarah Cascone September ...

The Minoans, the builders of Europe's first advanced civilization, really were European, new research suggests. The conclusion, published today (May 14) in the journal Nature Communications, was drawn ...

DNA research is shedding new light on the mysterious ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete and their counterparts on the Greek mainland, the Mycenaeans. The civilizations were Europe’s ...

Recent DNA testing has revealed fresh insight into the genetic origins of today’s Greek population, who do, in fact, have more in common with their mythic ancestors than experts previously believed, ...

Archaeologists excavating a Minoan settlement have found the discarded remains of Hexaplex trunculus shells, used in the production of the color purple—as well as gold jewelry and copper vases. The ...

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 ...

The Minoans were a literate Bronze Age civilization that flourished thousands of years ago (one woman shown dancing, in a fresco fragment that dates from 1600-1450 BCE). Credit: Wikipedia/Photo by ...