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 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 ...

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 ...

And to say that Minoan artwork is 'full' of weapons is wrong - if you surgery the artwork, there are very few images of weapons, and all of them appear to be ceremonial.

The island of Santorini, 70 miles north of Crete, was home to the wealthy Minoan seaport of Akrotiri, a place where the wall paintings discovered portray their landscape with happy animals and ...

The evidence for this idea included apparent similarities between Egyptian and Minoan art and resemblances between circular tombs built by the early inhabitants of southern Crete and those built ...

The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri.

While we can deduce some things about the building techniques and artwork of the five-millennia-old Minoan civilization on Crete, we know very little about the language they spoke. As a result, it’s ...

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.

Art World The Ancient Minoans Liked to Party Hard—and They Had Their Own 3,500-Year-Old Version of the Solo Cup. ... The 3,500-year-old Minoan cup alongside a paper cup from Air India.

I’ve just returned from Crete, where I visited the ancient palace of Knossos, and the archaeological museum in Heraklion, where thousands of the artifacts and artworks of ancient Crete are ...