Minoan art featured distinctive depictions of female forms—both divine and mortal. Perhaps the most famous is the Snake Goddess which dates to the 18th to 16th centuries B.C., ...

The minotaur also emerged as a figure in Modern art, whether the paintings of Pablo Picasso or the sculptures of Max Ernst; a French cruise line even decorated an entire ship in the Minoan style ...

The CU Art Museum's collection contains one vessel from the Early Minoan period, an incised pyxis with its lid intact. Middle Minoan Period (c. 2,000-1,550 B.C.E.) Pottery in the Middle Minoan Period ...

Located at the highest point of Papoura Hill, at an altitude of 1,620 feet, the complex dates to between 2000–1700 B.C.E., at the onset of Minoan civilization.

The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is a must-see in Crete — and all of Greece, even — for its extensive collection of Minoan art. Highlights include a mini-statue of a Snake Goddess and the ...

The RMC art professor fashioned his statue using hand-built Bronze Age tools and techniques, and built a base for his 20-inch statue that showed constellations, including Orion.

The Minoan culture, known from the island of Crete, shaped the southeastern Aegean during the Late Bronze Age, a period of prosperity marked by its strong influence on surrounding civilizations.

It is not often that a museum plays a leading role in one of its own shows, but that is the case with Oxford’s Ashmolean: for its new exhibition of Minoan archaeology and artefacts the museum ...

Minoan civilization, one of Europe's earliest Bronze Age civilizations, is renowned for its grand palace architecture, exquisite frescoes and unique writing systems. The exhibition will run from ...

This finding challenged existing notions about ancient Egyptian art and suggested cultural exchanges with the Minoan civilization. Catherine Defeyt, a FED-tWIN researcher at the CEA, stated, The ...