The Minoans were a powerful but mysterious naval civilization in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, but how was their calendar ...

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 ...

'In case you were thinking it’s a load of bull…” says one of our guides pointing up above the ruins of Minoan Knossos at a brightly painted bull fresco behind rich red and black columns, “…it is.” The ...

An analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that Ancient Minoans and Mycenaens were genetically similar with both peoples descending from early Neolithic farmers. They likely migrated from Anatolia to ...

They were the first civilization in Europe to build large palaces, but we still haven’t cracked the code of their language (or their exact origins). The mythological history of the Greek island Crete ...