Did the Mycenaeans really conquer Minoan Crete? If so, how and when did this happen? This article examines the evidence.

Whilst the island of Crete may be a huge tourist destination, there’s so much more here than you might expect. The ancient city of Knossos was the place that ‘gave birth’ to the very first ...

Boyd couldn’t have come to Crete at a better time. During the years that she worked there at the start of the twentieth century, a new, uniquely Cretan, Bronze Age civilization was starting to ...

What it is: A fired clay disk inscribed with symbols that have never been deciphered Where it is from: The ancient Minoan civilization on the Mediterranean island of Crete When it was made ...

The Minister of Culture stated that the Ministry is fully aware of the needs regarding the protection of cultural heritage ...

What ever happened to the Minoan civilization? Centered on the island of Crete 15 centuries before Christ, the seagoing Minoans once dominated the commerce and influenced the culture of the ...

Crete in fact built such a sophisticated civilization that it became nearly a paradigm for the development of Greece. During the time that the Argonaut expedition took place, sometime in late ...

The civilization arguably played a little-known ... Israel - and probably also established trading colonies in Sicily, Crete and Cyprus. Nuragic pottery (especially tableware) has been found ...

Crete has been a food destination a long time ... producing fruit), believed to be remnants of the once thriving Minoan civilization. Over thousands of years in the Bronze Age, the Minoans paved ...