Using advanced digital imaging technologies, classics professor and archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis is changing long-held perceptions of how prehistoric Greek communities functioned. Nakassis studies ...

The Mycenaeans, a Bronze Age civilization that conquered the Minoans, used a written language called Linear B (shown inscribed on tablet), that was an early form of Greek. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Remnants of a Mycenaean-era palace on the plain of Sparta have brought to light a number of finely-decorated artifacts, bronze swords, and wall frescoes, according to a press release from the Greek ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca on ABC Radio National. This week: The mystery of Linear B, the ...

John Chadwick, a self-effacing linguist who played a key role in deciphering the ancient Greek writings known as Linear B and then spent the rest of his life deflecting credit to his collaborator, has ...

The hundreds of clay tablets found in the ruins of King Minos’ palace at Knossos, Crete, and on the supposed site of King Nestor’s palace near Pylos on the Greek mainland long provided archaeology ...

The sixth edition of The Knossos Tabletsbrings for now to completion nearly 120 years of the study of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from the preeminent Cretan palatial site of the late Minoan ...

Sparta’s myth is famous, but its Bronze Age reality is elusive, shaped by earthquakes, scattered power centers, and a landscape that kept its secrets for millennia. From sunken cities to rare Linear B ...

An ancient Greek palace filled with cultic objects and clay tablets written in a lost script may be the long-lost palace of Mycenaean Sparta, one of the most famous civilizations of ancient Greece.