UNESCO has officially added the Minoan palace centers of Crete to its World Heritage List, recognizing their global cultural ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

International recognition of the outstanding universal value of the archaeological sites of Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos, and Kydonia – Mendoni: A landmark day for our homeland, the ...

Did the Minoans disappear after the Bronze Age? Or did they continue to exist as a distinct people among the inhabitants of Crete?

SOME remarkable vistas in the history of European civilisation are opened up in the report by Sir Arthur Evans of the discovery in October last of a temple of early Greek age in the island of Crete.

The Prime Minister spoke extensively about migration flows from Libya, the new inclusion of the Minoan Civilization in UNESCO ...

A team of archaeologists excavating the site of a sunken shipwreck recently announced the discovery of a remarkable 3,600-year-old Minoan dagger with silver rivets. The dagger was uncovered amid ...

In 1947, Minoan script was a dark mystery. But a young English amateur, Michael Ventris, was brooding over it. He was destined to achieve success in deciphering the later form of the script called ...