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Digital Reconstruction Brings to Life the Face of a 3,500-Year-Old Mycenaean Royal Woman

Greek City Times 24 Dec 2025
A groundbreaking digital reconstruction has unveiled the ...
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Archaeologists May Have Finally Found Sparta’s Lost Mycenaean Palace

Greek Reporter 18 Dec 2025
Mycenaean artifacts from Laconia, Greece ... Archaeologists could point to the major Mycenaean power centers very easily ... For a long time, that kind of terrain felt like the wrong place to hunt for a Mycenaean center on the scale of Pylos.
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Ancient DNA Shows Unexpected Italian Link in Mycenaean Livestock

Greek Reporter 05 Dec 2025
Ancient DNA from Mycenaean livestock reveals an unexpected genetic connection between mainland Greece and far-western regions ... The finding highlights the deep connectivity of Mycenaean Greek society at a moment of dramatic political change.
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The Beauty Practices of Men and Women in Bronze Age Greece

Greek Reporter 30 Nov 2025
1100 BC) were no exception, with the men and women of the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations being very conscious of their beauty ... Depiction of a woman on a Mycenaean fresco ... Mycenaean artifacts hint at a similar preference.
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Ancient Artefacts and Religious Icons Seizure Leads to Arrest

Greek City Times 21 Nov 2025
A man found in possession of ancient artefacts and religious icons was ...
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Bronze Age Mycenaean Pottery Near Athens Acropolis Shows Rare Greek Artwork

Greek Reporter 17 Nov 2025
A small fragment of Bronze Age pottery unearthed at a Mycenaean settlement south of the Acropolis of Athens is now offering scholars further insight into the development of Ancient Greek art.
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Bronze Age Mycenaean Road Network Reconstructed Using Advanced Digital Mapping

Greek Reporter 14 Nov 2025
Researchers have used advanced digital tools to trace how ancient travelers moved across Greece, offering the clearest reconstruction to date of the Mycenaean road network ... Nuttall’s team applied this technique to three real Mycenaean road segments.
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Iklaina: The First City-State of Ancient Greece

Greek Reporter 27 Oct 2025
The little-known site, Iklaina, on the Peloponnesian peninsula was a major center of Mycenaean culture; findings now indicate that it was the very first city-state in ancient Greece ... Mycenaean civilization.
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Scientists Recreate 3,000-Year-Old Perfume from Bronze Age Pylos

Greek Reporter 21 Oct 2025
Archaeologist Cynthia Shelmerdine and contemporary perfumer Michael Nordstrand presented their findings on how the ancient Mycenaean elite likely smelled, based on evidence from the Palace of Nestor.
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Greeks Are Descendants of the Mycenaeans, DNA Study Confirms

Greek Reporter 12 Oct 2025
DNA evidence proves that Greeks are indeed descendants of the Mycenaeans, who ruled mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea from 1,600 BC to 1,200 BC ... DNA overlap was discovered between modern Greeks and Mycenaeans ... Mycenaean fresco depicting a woman.
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3,000-Year-Old Tax Dispute Reveals Mycenaean Greece’s Legal Thinking

Greek Reporter 07 Oct 2025
The story of a tax dispute inscribed on clay tablets from the palace of Pylos is a remarkable episode from ancient Greece’s distant past that offers valuable insight into the political, economic, and linguistic world of Mycenaean Greece.
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Mycenaean Sword Bearers May Be Women, Not Men, Study Finds

Greek Reporter 05 Oct 2025
New research shows that women might be represented in Mycenaean iconography instead of men, changing the interpretation of Mycenaean society ... Mycenaean society ... Women, not men, in Mycenaean iconography.
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