Did the Mycenaeans really conquer Minoan Crete? If so, how and when did this happen? This article examines the evidence.

Was King Minos from Greek mythology a real person? This article examines the evidence for the existence of his sea-empire.

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 ...

This island, once part of the Minoan civilization, was forever altered by a colossal volcanic eruption around 1600 BCE, which some speculate led to the fall of the Minoans and inspired the legend of ...

Formerly known as Hegra it is the largest conserved site of the civilization of the Nabataeans south of Petra in Jordan. It features well-preserved monumental tombs with decorated facades dating from ...

By far the largest proportion of Volume II is devoted to the ancient civilization of Egypt because of its pre-eminent place in the early history of Africa. Read more in... Volume I deals with the ...