For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...
Perhaps the inspiration for Atlantis, Minoan civilization born on the island of Crete spread throughout the Mediterranean before it mysteriously collapsed. Many myths and legends of Crete center ...
What are Minoans best known for? During the Minoan period, between 2000 BCE and 1400 BCE, the civilization evolved. Crete is part of Greece today, but it was once a part of Crete. In particular, their ...
Valuable ancient artefacts provide a direct connection to human history by revealing details such as the old ways of life and ...
When did the Minoans rise to power? A few thousand years ago. Minoan culture emerges on the island of Crete and develops into one of the major maritime trading nations. The Minoan settlement of ...
A team of archaeologists has discovered in Knossos, on the Greek island of Crete, the longest Linear A inscription found to ...
The ancient Minoan palace of Zominthos on Crete, located at a height of 1,200 meters, shows that Minoans were highlanders too ...
Throughout the Middle Minoan period and down to the fifteenth century (i.e., from about 2000–1450 B.C.) the hub of that culture was Crete Only later was it forced to center itself on Phoenician ...
A team of archaeologists excavating the site of a sunken shipwreck recently announced the discovery of a remarkable 3,600-year-old Minoan dagger with silver rivets. The dagger was uncovered amid ...
El Argar had a centralized system for the production and distribution of its pottery vessels and clay objects, all made from material sourced from a single location ...