Minoan Trade RoutesMinoan influence inthe Bronze Age can be traced through archaeology. On the island of Melos there are architectural remnants, pottery, and frescoes in Cretan style, similar to ...

The frescoes of Thera were the first paintings ... From 1900 onward the strange beauty and originality of the Minoan civilization on Crete began to unfold. Soon archaeologists realized that ...

The technology of the Bronze Age seems primitive by today’s standards, which makes it incredible that Bronze Age people ...

Getty Images Reconstruction of a fresco at Knossos showing Minoan women "With ancient DNA we can now begin to answer this question." Dr Lazaridis explained that most of the people who created ...

Representations of the plant are often found on Minoan frescoes and vase paintings. Famous is the Saffron-Collecting Monkey, the only wall painting of the Middle Minoan period (1600 BC) in Knossos. It ...

Frescoes in the palace at Knossos show large ... he turned instinctively to the palace of Minoan Crete, to that encounter between man and bull that still haunts us all ... the Minotaur.

A labyrinth of massive columns and beautiful frescoes, the Palace of Knossos is a testament to the sophistication of the Minoan civilization that disappeared sometime in the 14th century.

She was finding it particularly difficult to remove glue that had been used to pull the frescoes from the walls of Santos Juanes church during restoration work in the 1960s. "My mother had a very ...

Start (early) in the superb Heraklion Museum in the island’s capital, where jaw-dropping archaeological wonders include the intricate Malia bee pendant, Kamares tableware, and those legendary Minoan ...

Minoan Bull Leaper (made around 3,500 years ... gold and bronze, and colourful frescoes, often depicting bulls. Evans was eager to reconstruct the role that the animals might have played in ...