Throughout history, great civilisations have risen, flourished and then disappeared, leaving behind ruins, legends and a host ...

Within the broader context of Minoan art, the fresco underscores the celebration of youth and athleticism. Scholars speculate that the boxing match depicted might have held ritualistic or ceremonial ...

The most striking thing about the culture of ancient Crete (or Minoan culture, as it is often called) is how prominent women are. They are everywhere in Minoan artwork, on pottery, frescoes and ...

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 ...

Scholars agree that the grave is more than a random collection of Mycenaean and Minoan objects. “Here, Cretan art is being reused and repurposed in a local context,” says Nakassis.

This year's charm draws on the Blossom Rosette motif, a design that dates back to the temples of Aphrodite in Classical Greece and even earlier Minoan art, where it symbolised fertility 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.

Twenty eight Greek visual artists created works of art inspired by the Minoan civilization as part of an initiative to raise public awareness on threats to world cultural heritage as six Minoan ...

SIR ARTHUR EVANS, commenting on the results of Sir Leonard Woolley's recent archaeological investigations in Syria (see NATURE of July 4, p. 20 and August 8, p. 235), pronounces the Minoan impact ...

But it's unclear whether the circular structure on Papoura Hill would qualify as a peak sanctuary – aside from its hilltop location, it's unlike any other Minoan structure found to date. (Greek ...

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.