One of the most curious finds from the Minoan palace at Phaistos is a small, clay disc featuring a stamped text on both sides.

At Phaistos, near Crete’s southern coast, on a hill overlooking the Messara Plain, are the impressive remains of a large Minoan palace.

War drives society to the limits of civility. This is beautifully illustrated in a surviving fragment of the Annals of Ennius.

We take a closer look at the bull-leaping fresco from Knossos (now in Iraklion), one of many depictions of ancient Minoan bull-sports.

Learn more about the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians in this interview with Kasia Szpakowska of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project.

When he excavated Knossos, Arthur Evans happened across artefacts that he believed were stylized horns of a sacred bull. Was he correct?

The second most popular archaeological site in Greece, Knossos features impressive remains of a Bronze-Age Minoan “palace”.

Experts Stephanie Craven and Hannah Ringheim join regular team members Joshua Hall and Josho Brouwers to talk about mercenaries.