Ancient Underwater Minoan City Discovered Off Crete's Coast Sheds New Light on Early Civilization - A comprehensive travel ...

This gold pendant was discovered in 1930 at the cemetery of Chrysolakkos, which means "pit of gold," in the ancient Minoan town of Malia in Crete. Although the famed archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans ...

Numerous customs and cultural practices of the Minoan civilization from Crete have been preserved through the Christian ...

PALAIKASTRO, Greece — Only this much is certain: About 3,100 years ago, the main port on the eastern edge of Crete was abandoned during the dying gasps of the Minoan civilization. What brought about ...

The rare ancient tomb of a wealthy Minoan woman has been discovered at a monumental archaeological complex on the Greek island of Crete. The cist grave—a small, coffin-like grave built using ...

The eight-foot-deep pit contained two ancient coffins and an array of funerary vases. Lassithi Ephorate of Antiquities Sometime between 1400 and 1200 B.C., two Minoan men were laid to rest in an ...

The Minoans, the builders of Europe's first advanced civilization, really were European, new research suggests. The conclusion, published today (May 14) in the journal Nature Communications, was drawn ...

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