Minoans may have invented the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

Minoan artifacts and cooking equipment have been found at Miletus, a city in Anatolia that would have attracted the Cretans for its proximity to sources of metal. Thucydides’ vision of ancient ...

DNA research is shedding new light on the mysterious ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete and their counterparts on the Greek mainland, the Mycenaeans. The civilizations were Europe ...

Near the town of Palaikastro, located at the eastern end of the island of Crete, lies the archaeological site of a city from ...

The team of archaeologists announced the discovery of the ancient Minoan dagger in a translated statement from Akdeniz University. The artifact was described in the post as a “silver-riveted ...

There have been many ingenious attempts to decipher the spiraling inscription, not least because of the wealth of new information it could reveal about the ancient Minoan civilization. So far ...

The well-preserved remains of the ancient Minoan town of Gournia in eastern Crete still stand after more than 3,500 years.(Jarrett A. Lobell) Although his interpretation of Knossos as the palace ...

When was Chania the home to Minoans? How did a lion g to the top of a Greek mountain? It’s time to get curious about Greece! Who left some ancient treasures in a magical cave? What does the ...

Beverley D'Silva explores the Hellenistic revival and its roots with the ancient Minoans of Crete. Corinthian columns; sculptures of goddesses and god-like figures; sun-baked buildings bleached ...

Minoans may have created the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.