The peoples who lived on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age are known today as the Minoans, after Minos, a legendary king of Crete. The history of Minoan Crete is broken into Early, Middle, and ...

The paper discuss the MM IB tableware produced and consumed at Galatas and Kastelli Pediados and tries to understand cultural interaction between Knossos and the Pediada on the basis of imported ...

When it was made: Between 1800 and 1700 B.C. This gold pendant was discovered in 1930 at the cemetery of Chrysolakkos, which means "pit of gold," in the ancient Minoan town of Malia in Crete. Although ...

Archaeologists excavating a Minoan settlement have found the discarded remains of Hexaplex trunculus shells, used in the production of the color purple—as well as gold jewelry and copper vases. The ...

The present paper discusses MM III pottery from Galatas. The clear stratigraphical sequence of the site combined with its systematic and documented investigation provide valuable information on the ...

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A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from ...