The Minoan civilization was one of the earliest and most advanced societies in Europe, thriving across Crete and the Aegean ...

Ancient evidence suggests that Talos, the protector of ancient Crete in Greek mythology, actually represents a remnant of Minoans.

Rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, the Minoan Civilization, whose earliest beginnings were from c. 3500 BC on the island of ...

Disoveries of gate sanctuary from the Minoan period on Crete and a tomb dating from the time of Alexander the Great's father are seen as shedding important new light on Europe's oldest civilisation.

The Minoan civilization on the Mediterranean island of Crete flourished from 2000-1500 BC. Then it gradually declined, its palaces disappearing into the landscape--to be rediscovered in the late 19th ...