Minoans

The starting point is Cnossos in northern Crete, where we encounter the palaces occupied by the so-called Minoans from roughly 2000 B.C. to 1450 B.C., before they gave way to the Greek-speaking Mycenaeans, who remained there for about 200 years.

When Trouble in Athens Meant Sparta 2010

A race called the Minoans set up or is guardians of the buoys.

PEACEKEEPER by Laura E. Reeve Tia Nevitt 2009

‘May I remind you, Commander,’ said the envoy, ‘that the Minoans are the emperor’s faithful subjects?’

The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

The prehistoric equivalent of a modern superpower, the Minoans built vast palaces, from which they controlled the rest of the island and an empire further afield the famous "Linear B tablets", written in a primitive form of Greek, provide vivid evidence of their obsessive bureaucracy – no literature, just lists and lists and more lists.

Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

… FOR HISTORYCrete's story begins almost 5,000 years ago, with the mysterious Minoans.

Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

… FOR HISTORYCrete's story begins almost 5,000 years ago, with the mysterious Minoans.

Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

Whether the Minoans were peace-loving types, living under the benign influence of a Mother Goddess, or hardline imperialists remains a matter of dispute.

Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

The prehistoric equivalent of a modern superpower, the Minoans built vast palaces, from which they controlled the rest of the island and an empire further afield the famous "Linear B tablets", written in a primitive form of Greek, provide vivid evidence of their obsessive bureaucracy – no literature, just lists and lists and more lists.

Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

Whether the Minoans were peace-loving types, living under the benign influence of a Mother Goddess, or hardline imperialists remains a matter of dispute.

Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

Pointing to evidence of indigenous American plants being transported to other civilizations -- including nicotine traces found in ancient Egyptian mummies and maize-cobs carved on their temples -- he says that the Egyptians with their flimsy vessels weren't great seafarers and that only the Minoans, with whom they traded, could have undertaken trans-Atlantic travel.

Sailing Against Conventional Wisdom Dalya Alberge 2010