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Imagine over 100 years of scientific digs into the foundations of Minoan Crete, and we knew nothing of how Minoan people reckoned the days of the year and the flow of time. No advanced and prosperous society could manage its agriculture, foreign trade and ritual life without a calendar. And yet, till...
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Minoan Deities
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The Minoan Deities Named: An Archaeologist Gleans Goddesses and Gods from Linear A According to the online Dartmouth course "Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean", the goddess names found include Potinija or Potnia ("Mistress" in later Greek); Atana Potinija or Potnia...
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Orthi Petra
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Dynasty of Priestesses For a quarter century, Greek excavation director Nicholas Stampolidis and his dedicated team have been unearthing the untold stories of the people buried some 2,800 years ago in the necropolis of Orthi Petra at Eleutherna on Crete. Until now, the site has perhaps been best k...
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The Phaistos Disc
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The Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the Greek island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC). Read more...
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A single olive branch may have solved one of ancient history's most enduring mysteries - when and why did the great Minoan civilisation of the Mediterranean come to a sudden end?
The olive branch was buried alive during a cataclysmic volcanic eruption on the Aegean island of Thera - now known as S...
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New evidence suggests that an ancient Aegean city not only recovered but also flourished following the collapse of the Bronze Age. Recent fieldwork at the ancient city of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete finds that during the early Iron Age (1100 to 600 BC), the city was rich in imports and was near...
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