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Jade and gold brooch. Source: Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism
6 OCT 2025 · 2 MIN

Ancient Gold Brooch and Jade Stone Unearthed at Troy

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Troy in northwestern Turkey have unearthed a 4,500-year-old gold brooch, a jade stone, and a bronze pin, findings that push the city’s known history several…
Mycenaean warriors depicted on a vase. Something sudden happened to the Bronze Age palaces which caused them to be abandoned as society collapsed, and the social order which replaced them looked decidedly different. Source: Sharon Mollerus / CC BY 2.0.
15 OCT 2024 · 7 MIN

The Mycenaean Collapse: A Massacre in the Palaces?

Bronze Age Greece is seen as a golden age. This is Homer’s Greece, the Greece of the Iliad and the Trojan War, of city states and island kingdoms, of great heroes and…
The excavated Greek ruins including the large L-shaped rampart wall. Some of the finds indicate a site dating back to the golden age of Bronze Age Greece. Source: Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media.
9 OCT 2024 · 2 MIN

Ancient Greek Ruins in Croatia Date back to the Trojan War

Archaeologists in the village of Stobreč in Croatia have unearthed an ancient Greek settlement. What makes this find especially exciting is that the oldest finds date back some 3,500 years, placing them…