Minoan culture had a profound impact on both the islands and mainland Greek cultures. Minoan culture reached its peak in the early fifth century B.C. Cities and palaces were elaborate and traded ...

For over two decades, archaeologists have excavated the remains of Minoan houses and streets at Palaikastro in eastern Crete. In Bronze Age times, this was a substantial port with some 5,000 ...

The Minoan Civilization flourished on the Island of Crete from around 2600 B.C. to 1200 B.C., building ... art and architecture that would go on to influence the whole of Western civilization.

The CU Art Museum's collection contains one vessel from the Early Minoan period, an incised pyxis with its lid intact. Middle Minoan Period (c. 2,000-1,550 B.C.E.) Pottery in the Middle Minoan Period ...

Europe's first advanced civilisation was local in origin and not imported from elsewhere, a study says. Analysis of DNA from ancient remains on the Greek island of Crete suggests the Minoans were ...

The palace at Knossos on Crete was an important centre for the Minoan civilization DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations. Researchers analysed genetic data ...

Minoan civilization, one of Europe's earliest Bronze Age civilizations, is renowned for its grand palace architecture, exquisite frescoes and unique writing systems. The exhibition will run from ...

A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the Greek tourist island.