This means that the dark ages of Greece, could be much shorter than previously believed since the late geometric—and so the Greek renaissance, which saw the introduction of the alphabet—would ...

So, the dark ages of Greece would be much shorter and the new start to the iron ages and the Greek Renaissance would be placed 100 years earlier than previously thought.

Ancient Eleutherna, located on the foot of Mount Ida on Crete, is revealing archaeological treasures from the dawn of Greek civilization.

After the Mycenaean age ended in about 1100BC, Greece entered a Dark Age. It is known as a dark age because nobody knows much about what happened - all written language and art disappeared.

Ancient Greece lasted from around 700 to 480 BC, and those who called that point in history home greatly furthered the region's advances in art, poetry, and technology. It was the age in which the ...

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering events between 1200 and 760BC. This period has traditionally been viewed as a ...

The Greek iron ages occurred within this period. But, because of the lack of documents, till now historians have been working with a timeline, which uses pottery styles from Athens as its basis.