UNESCO has officially added the Minoan palace centers of Crete to its World Heritage List, recognizing their global cultural ...

International recognition of the outstanding universal value of the archaeological sites of Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos, and Kydonia – Mendoni: A landmark day for our homeland, the ...

Did the Minoans disappear after the Bronze Age? Or did they continue to exist as a distinct people among the inhabitants of Crete?

UNESCO has reviewed the applications of several new World Heritage sites, adding the Carnac Megaliths in France, the Palaces ...

The monument is the first of its kind to be found in Crete. Researchers are still working to discover its original form and purpose, though they have noted similarities between this circular ...

Throughout the Middle Minoan period and down to the fifteenth century (i.e., from about 2000–1450 B.C.) the hub of that culture was Crete Only later was it forced to center itself on Phoenician ...

Marriage in Minoan Crete. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Journal Nature Ecology & Evolution DOI 10.1038/s41559-022-01952-3. Keywords /Life sciences/ Genetics ...