The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it...
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The Minoan language is the language (or languages) of the ancient Minoan civilization of Crete written in the Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear...
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mainland. Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age. The Cycladic civilization converges with the mainland during the...
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Minoan palaces were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age. They are often considered emblematic of the Minoan civilization and...
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Evans greatly expanded knowledge and awareness of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization, but Evans has subsequently been criticised for overstatements and...
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BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe. During the Iron...
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Knossos (category Minoan civilization)
archaeological site in Crete. The site was a major center of the Minoan civilization and is known for its association with the Greek myth of Theseus and...
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Minoan chronology is a framework of dates used to divide the history of the Minoan civilization. Two systems of relative chronology are used for the Minoans...
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Santorini (section Minoan Akrotiri)
history: the Minoan eruption (sometimes called the Thera eruption), which occurred about 3,600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization. The eruption...
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Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals...
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Mycenaean Greece (redirect from Mycenaean civilization)
Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations is complexity and monumentality; Mycenaean craftmanship and architecture are more simplified versions of Minoan ones, but...
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The Minoan civilization produced a wide variety of richly decorated Minoan pottery. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something...
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Minoans were also innovators, developing (or adopting) a system of lead weights to facilitate economic transactions. Despite this Minoan civilization...
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Cycladic culture prospered in the Cyclades (c. 3,200 – c. 1,050 BC) and Minoan civilization around Crete (c. 3,500 – c. 1,100 BC). The Bronze Age ended with...
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ivory and other materials produced in the Minoan civilization. They are an important part of Minoan art, and have been found in quantity at specific sites...
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Crete (category Minoan geography)
Europe's first advanced civilization, the Minoans, from 2700 to 1420 BC. The Minoan civilization was overrun by the Mycenaean civilization from mainland Greece...
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Toplessness (section Minoan civilization)
overflowing of the Nile. Female breasts were also prominent in the Minoan civilization in the form of the famous Snake Goddess statuettes.[citation needed]...
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Sir Arthur Evans used King Minos as the namesake for the Minoan civilization of Crete. The Minoan palace at Knossos is sometimes referred to as the Palace...
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Palace economy (section Middle Minoan Crete)
use of the terms came from the study of the palaces of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, which flourished in the Late Bronze Age on Crete and mainland...
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Bull-leaping (category Minoan religion)
non-violent bull fighting. Some are based on an ancient ritual from the Minoan civilization involving an acrobat leaping over the back of a charging bull (or...
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Archaeology of Greece (section The Minoan civilization)
information relevant to the Minoan archaeological record. The Palace of Knossos is an archaeological site belonging to the Minoan civilization along with smaller...
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Minoan may refer to the following: Minoan, having to do with King Minos Minoan civilization Minoan, the script known as Linear A the (undeciphered) Minoan...
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Heraklion (section Minoan era)
is also home to the ancient Knossos Palace, a major center of the Minoan civilization dating back to approximately 2000-1350 BCE, often considered Europe's...
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Cycladic culture (redirect from Cycladic civilization)
Cycladic and Minoan civilizations.[citation needed] There is some disagreement between the dating systems used for Cycladic civilization, one "cultural"...
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The Minoan Genius is a legendary creature that was common in the Minoan art of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization in ancient Crete. It is portrayed sometimes...
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Linear A (redirect from Minoan Linear A)
by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It evolved...
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Bronze Age (redirect from Bronze Age civilization)
chronometer enabled the precise determination of longitude. The Minoan civilization based in Knossos on the island of Crete appears to have coordinated...
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Ancient Greece (redirect from Hellenic Civilization)
(Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the...
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Indus Valley Civilisation (redirect from Indus civilization)
second-millennium BCE, which are unrelated to the mature phase of the Indus Valley Civilization. Recent geophysical research suggests that unlike the Sarasvati, described...
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Bull-Leaping Fresco (category Minoan frescos)
presents the topic in Chapter III of his monumental work on Knossos and Minoan Civilization, Palace of Minos. There he calls the several frescos "The Taureador...
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