Pottery in ancient Greece, as elsewhere, was fired in a specially-made ceramic kiln. Other firing structures, including food ovens, smelting furnaces, and lime kilns, would have been unsuitable for ...

Kerameikos is an ancient Athenian area formerly known as the Potters' Quarter, which today stands as the largest necropolis ...

Painted over the enormous midsection of the Dipylon amphora—a nearly 2,800-year-old clay vase from Greece—silhouetted figures surround a corpse in a funeral scene. Intricate geometric patterns zig and ...

Archaeologists have made an important discovery while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece near Athens where a now-sunken city once stood. Scientists found a partially submerged ...

Excavations in the Peloponnesian village of Iklaina are yielding rich insights into the lives of the Mycenaean civilization’s general population. An archaeologist carefully uncovers a pottery fragment ...

Map of Greece in the iron age. Trevor Van Damme, Author provided (no reuse) While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...