For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

Valuable ancient artefacts provide a direct connection to human history by revealing details such as the old ways of life and ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered in Knossos, on the Greek island of Crete, the longest Linear A inscription found to ...

Antikythera Shipwreck treasures reunite at Greece’s National Archaeological Museum with Minoan exhibits in a major expansion.

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 ...

It was at the core of the Minoan civilization that flourished on the island. The site's discovery and excavation date back to the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1900, Arthur Evans began ...

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 ...

The southernmost island in the Aegean Sea and an area believed to have been an active part in the Trojan War, boasting of ...