Long ago, a substantial ancient Greek population from the island of Crete lived in the ancient city of Daedala, located in ...

Despite the importance of Crete to ancient Greek civilization, archaeological study of its culture is relatively recent. Some of the earliest traces of a powerful, Bronze Age civilization were ...

This course is a detailed study of the cultures of prehistoric Greece, the Cycladic Islands, and Crete, their art and archaeology, and their history within the broader context of the eastern ...

Crete, the largest of the Greek islands, is a tapestry of splendid beaches, ancient treasures and stunning landscapes.

Since then, it has become the biggest tourist draw on Crete. Knossos is located about ... into both the Palace of Knossos and the Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Knossos & Lasithi Plateau ...

The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is a must-see in Crete — and all of Greece, even — for its extensive collection of Minoan art. Highlights include a mini-statue of a Snake Goddess and the ...

John Bennet was born in Singapore and grew up in the UK, in Yorkshire. He read Classics at Cambridge, where he also completed his PhD on the administrative organization of Late Minoan II–IIIB Crete ...

There I built on the work of J. Riley, R. Jones and others, demonstrating the potential of ceramic petrography in the characterisation of coarse ware production in Minoan Crete. After this grounding, ...

In 1950 the Santorini volcano experienced its last eruption, closing a cycle of volcanic activity that had begun in 1939.

Since 2002, I have been involved in archaeological work at the Late Roman site of Kourion on Cyprus. From 2005-2010 I served as one of the principal investigators on the Galatas Survey Project, a ...