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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Crete Minoan Calendar (Preview)	Off Topic	2	3550	Nov 19 01:54 2011 by
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...
Goddess Crete Minoan Deities (Preview)	Off Topic	8	9362	May 24 09:58 2017 by Blobrana
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...
Crete Orthi Petra (Preview)	Off Topic	1	1417	Mar 10 04:01 2010 by Blobrana
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...
Crete The Phaistos Disc (Preview)	Off Topic	1	2604	Oct 25 00:42 2014 by Blobrana
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...
Volcano Island Crete Thera ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	General news	22	21706	Nov 11 12:28 2016 by Blobrana
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...
Crete Knossos (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1004	Jan 6 14:21 2016 by Blobrana
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...