Minoans may have created the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

Minoans may have invented the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

Near the town of Palaikastro, located at the eastern end of the island of Crete, lies the archaeological site of a city from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island during the Bronze ...

Archaeologists have long debated the influence of Minoan civilization, which began to flourish in Crete around 2500 B.C., on the rise of Mycenaean society a thousand years later. Linear B tablets ...

Guest: Kelly Lytle Hernández is the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is a 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” ...

Archaeologists have uncovered former Harappa stoneware, antediluvian cave prints and rock art from different areas of Jharkhand. The elaborate carpentry, the pitcher prints, ethnic ornaments ...

A study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the ...

Art historian Ernst Gombrich pointed to a remarkable phenomenon around 500 B.C., a time he described as historically perplexing. During the Greco-Persian Wars, the vast Persian Empire under Darius I ...

It is there, around 3400–3000 BC, that all the key elements of urban civilization first appear in one place ... RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier / Art Resource, NY The earliest known writing ...

But wait - why does it matter which civilization I pick in Rise of Kingdoms? Well, my dear friend, that's all up to you. Are you a casual player and want to pick based on looks, history, and the ...