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Scandinavians from the island of Gotland began to spread throughout the Baltic region along the Russian rivers in the 700s. While the Vikings of Norway and Denmark from the 8th to 11th centuries are widely recognized...

Join World History Encyclopedia as they chat with Flora of Flaroh Illustration, a freelance illustrator who loves to create art inspired by archaeological artefacts and myths. Kelly (WHE): What...

The key places, peoples, and commanders associated with Homer’s Iliad form a poetic geography of the Late Bronze Age Aegean and western Anatolia. Although the...

A fresco from the throne room of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos, often referred to as the 'Orpheus Fresco' depicts a seated lyre player and a bird in flight. It dates to c. 1300 BCE and this watercolour reconstruction...

Tholos IV at Pylos is situated near the Mycenaean centre; the Palace of Nestor. It is believed to be the oldest tholos tomb on mainland Greece.

The Minoans and the Mycenaeans were both powerful civilizations of the Bronze Age Aegean, and often they are through to follow one after the other. However, this comparison video will detail...

Cratera griega MAN nº inv. 32676. Shows a symposium on one side, with a female playing the aulos. Three men gather on the other side.

Loutrophoros from the Greek collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Spain. Depicts the abduction of Persephone. 340 - 320 BCE. Nº inv. MAN 1998/92/2 94 x 27 x 36 cm