Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Radiocarbon dating is quietly rewriting one of humanity’s best known origin stories, shifting the rise of Egypt’s first ...

Numerous customs and cultural practices of the Minoan civilization from Crete have been preserved through the Christian ...

Arthur Evans, the archaeologist who excavated the ancient Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete, exported artifacts he discovered back to Britain.

Litfest and Lancaster University are delighted to announce that the 2026 Lancaster History Lecture will be given as part of ...

Kevin Spacey headed out for a coffee in Oxford ahead of his controversial lecture there. The actor, 66, was cleared of sexually assaulting four men in 2023 but he will face new sex assault claims from ...

This serial property comprises six archaeological sites on Crete dating from 1900 to 1100 BCE. These sites represent the Minoan civilization, a major prehistoric Mediterranean culture. The palatial ...

More than 100 years after it was first discovered, the town of Gournia is once again redefining the island's past I know a place where there are a lot of old things,” a peasant named George Perakis ...

As Greece builds to accommodate a rise in tourism and other development projects, unearthed antiquities complicate progress. Archaeologists speculate that this recently found ancient Minoan ...

The story behind the Oxford shirt is a lot less thrilling than you’d expect. It didn’t earn that fancy-sounding sobriquet through some sacred connection to the tony British university; instead, the ...

Earlier this year, Santorini and the surrounding area experienced an earthquake swarm, totaling some 25,000 tremors in a one-month period. A new study dives into the inner workings of what caused this ...

4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine. 25 November 2025 58 minutes Available for over a year Rutger Bregman's 2025 Reith Lectures, called "Moral Revolution", explore the moral decay and ...