News tagged with mycenaean period
Race to preserve the world's oldest submerged town
(PhysOrg.com) -- The oldest submerged town in the world is about to give up its secrets — with the help of equipment that could revolutionise underwater archaeology.
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May 11, 2009 |
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UC research uncovers ancient Mycenaean fortress
(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent find by a University of Cincinnati archeologist suggests an ancient Mycenaean city was well protected from outside threats.
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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Oldest evidence of writing found in Europe
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study to be published this month in the Proceedings of the Athens Archaeological Society, archaeologist Michael Cosmopoulos of the University of Missouri-St. Louis shares his discovery of a c ...
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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Cyprus: crews stumble on 2-millennia-old coffins
(AP) -- Work crews in Cyprus have accidentally unearthed four rare clay coffins estimated to be some 2,000 years old, the country's Antiquities Department director said Wednesday.
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May 19, 2010 |
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World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years (w/ Video)
Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 ...
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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New evidence from excavations supports theory of the 'Birth of Zeus'
In the third century BCE, the Greek poet Callimachus wrote a 'Hymn to Zeus' asking the ancient, and most powerful, Greek god whether he was born in Arcadia on Mt. Lykaion or in Crete on Mt. Ida.
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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Archaeological Dig in Greece Returns Important Finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- New and interesting information is coming out of an archaeological dig at Mt. Lykaion in Greece – an interdisciplinary project University of Arizona students and faculty have worked on since ...
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Sep 24, 2008 |
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FSU classics professor exploring a 'lost' city of the Mycenaeans
Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, a Florida State University researcher and his students are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, “lost” harbor town believed to have been built ...
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Mar 11, 2008 |
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New Evidence Suggests Need to Rewrite Bronze Age History
Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant (a large area of the Middle East) at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never considered ...
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