Ancient World
Dendra Panoply (c. 1400 BC): The Oldest Greek Suit of Armour
The earliest nearly complete suit of metal body armour known from Europe, now in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplio.
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Europe
Ancient World
Egtved Girl: A Bronze Age Oak-Coffin Burial in Denmark
The burial became the best-preserved example of Nordic Bronze Age dress and a test case for scientific studies of prehistoric mobility.
Ancient World
Uluburun Shipwreck: A Late Bronze Age Cargo off Turkey
The excavation recovered the richest Bronze Age cargo ever found at sea, transforming understanding of Late Bronze Age long-distance trade.
Ancient World
Tiryns (c. 1300 BC): The Cyclopean Walls of a Mycenaean Citadel
One of the strongest Mycenaean fortresses; its palace burned c. 1200 BC and the town was destroyed by Argos in the 5th century BC.
Ancient World
Palace of Nestor at Pylos (c. 1300 BC): A Mycenaean Palace
The best-preserved Mycenaean palace on the Greek mainland; its fired Linear B tablets were key to deciphering the script.
Ancient World
Acropolis of Athens: The Sacred Rock From Bronze Age to Pericles
A Bronze Age fortress became the religious heart of Athens; after the Persian sack of 480 BC it was rebuilt as the most celebrated sanctuary of classical Greece.
Ancient World
Tollense Valley Battlefield: Europe's Oldest Known Battle Site
The site provided the first direct evidence of a large-scale battle in Bronze Age northern Europe, with remains of at least 140 people recovered.
Ancient World
Treasury of Atreus (c. 1250 BC): The Great Tholos Tomb of Mycenae
The largest and finest Mycenaean tholos tomb; its dome remained the widest in the world for more than a thousand years.
Ancient World
Mycenae and the Lion Gate (c. 1250 BC): Citadel of Agamemnon
The most powerful Mycenaean centre gave its name to a civilisation; its palace burned c. 1200 BC and the town was destroyed by Argos c. 468 BC.
Ancient World
Late Bronze Age Collapse: The End of an Interconnected World
The Hittite empire, Mycenaean palace states and many Levantine cities collapsed, Egypt and Assyria were weakened, and the region entered the early Iron Age.
Ancient World
Trojan War: History, Archaeology and the Legend of Troy
Troy was a real and important Bronze Age city destroyed more than once, but whether a war like Homer's took place remains unproven.
Ancient World
Phoenician Colonies: Trade Networks Across the Mediterranean
A chain of Phoenician colonies and trading posts linked the eastern and western Mediterranean and laid the foundations of Carthage's later power.