The Bronze Age in the Near East and Aegean region began around 3000 B.C. It peaked in the 1500s B.C. and ended gradually, then suddenly, in the Late Bronze Age collapse of the late 1200s and early ...

DURING the bronze age, Greece was remarkably wealthy in gold; though the most sensational finds have been those of Mycenæ, there is little doubt from the amount that has been turned up elsewhere ...

Many other Mycenaean palaces and burials of the Greek Bronze Age, as well as countless artifacts and skeletal remains, have come to light since Schliemann’s time. Ms. Hauser has the benefit not ...

Description including Unit Aims. This unit examines in some detail specific aspects of the Aegean Bronze Age. Students will study the archaeology of important sites such as Troy, Knossos, Mycenae, ...

He said that, by contrast, in other parts of Bronze Age Europe, women often traveled hundreds of miles in order to marry. Resources in those areas would have been more plentiful, he explained.

In fact, the Aegean Bronze Age was the time of Achilles and Odysseus — of the legendary Trojan Horse and Trojan War — memorialized in the works of Homer. Not so mythical were the cultures that arose ...

People in the Middle Bronze Age (about 1,800 BCE) to the early Late Bronze Age lived in large settlements. [Related: Details of life in Bronze Age Mycenae could lie at the bottom of a well .] ...