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The emergence of the Sea Peoples in the Late Bronze Age during a period of massive upheaval remains a mystery.
A wine shop sign in the ruins of the ancient Roman city Herculaneum’s main street. The sign tells viewers to 'come to the sign of the bowls' (ad cucumas). Some of the wines also have vintage dates.
Dissatisfied with the lack of information on Italian viticulture, a research team gathered 1,700 archeological grape seeds to ...
While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...
The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean ... of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean trade ...
Italian grape and wine domestication took 7,000 years. Seeds show a shift from wild to cultivated types. Sardinia played a key role early.
In the late 19th century, German archaeologist Heinrich ... Schliemann’s hypotheses on the drinking customs of the early bronze age elite have become an enduring narrative.
Other artifacts identified included city walls and agricultural structures from the Judahite Kingdom, which existed during the Iron Age in the ... the Middle Bronze and Late Bronze Ages, here ...
The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...
A multidisciplinary study led by researchers from the University of Alicante (UA) and the University of Augsburg (Germany) ...
It spread and gained influence across parts of the Eastern Mediterranean before completely crumbling amid the late Bronze Age Collapse. The society was a hotbed of creativity and human ingenuity.