The Pylos Combat Agate, a small limestone-encrusted seal, is the most exciting treasure yet to come from the tomb of a Bronze-Age Greek warrior. The Minoan sealstone found in the tomb of the ...

Does Homer's Iliad really describe the horned helmets of the Mycenaean Era, or was he talking about something else entirely?

An American husband-and-wife team working in Greece has uncovered the 3,500-year-old remains of a prominent ancient warrior who was buried alongside an assortment of riches. It’s being called ...

and some were inscribed or painted with geometric symbols. Greek art shows warriors wearing Corinthian helmets tilted back on ...

Oftentimes, warriors would engrave a symbol of the boar into their armor ... Lions were associated with power and strength in ancient Greece, and Sekhmet, the goddess of war, in ancient Egypt.

Using new scientific tools, University of Cincinnati archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior likely grew up around the seaside city he would one ...

Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus’s festering injuries by scraping rust from his spear into the wound. First century A.D., bas-relief, Herculaneum. How ancient is ...

Thanks in part to their connection to the life cycle, women in ancient Greece were both symbols of mortality and a force to humanize ... In “The Iliad,” the powerful warrior Achilles’ mother, Thetis, ...