The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it... 114 KB (13,577 words) - 04:15, 28 April 2024 |
mainland. Crete is associated with the Minoan civilization from the Early Bronze Age. The Cycladic civilization converges with the mainland during the... 24 KB (3,208 words) - 06:07, 26 April 2024 |
Minoan palaces were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age. They are often considered emblematic of the Minoan civilization and... 42 KB (5,130 words) - 15:51, 18 April 2024 |
Evans greatly expanded knowledge and awareness of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization, but Evans has subsequently been criticised for overstatements and... 20 KB (2,443 words) - 18:05, 27 April 2024 |
The Minoan language is the language (or languages) of the ancient Minoan civilization of Crete written in the Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear... 7 KB (620 words) - 05:26, 16 April 2024 |
BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe. During the Iron... 41 KB (5,430 words) - 07:25, 17 April 2024 |
Knossos (category Minoan civilization) archaeological site in Crete. The site was a major center of the Minoan civilization and is known for its association with the Greek myth of Theseus and... 47 KB (5,538 words) - 19:41, 25 April 2024 |
Santorini (section Minoan Akrotiri) history: the Minoan eruption (sometimes called the Thera eruption), which occurred about 3,600 years ago at the height of the Minoan civilization. The eruption... 91 KB (9,884 words) - 02:30, 30 April 2024 |
Mycenaean Greece (redirect from Mycenaean civilization) Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations is complexity and monumentality; Mycenaean craftmanship and architecture are more simplified versions of Minoan ones, but... 155 KB (17,593 words) - 02:09, 30 April 2024 |
Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals... 62 KB (7,826 words) - 22:34, 23 January 2024 |
Minoans were also innovators, developing (or adopting) a system of lead weights to facilitate economic transactions. Despite this Minoan civilization... 40 KB (5,790 words) - 06:31, 23 April 2024 |
Crete (category Minoan geography) Europe's first advanced civilization, the Minoans, from 2700 to 1420 BC. The Minoan civilization was overrun by the Mycenaean civilization from mainland Greece... 103 KB (10,541 words) - 12:22, 30 April 2024 |
Toplessness (section Minoan civilization) overflowing of the Nile. Female breasts were also prominent in the Minoan civilization in the form of the famous Snake Goddess statuettes.[citation needed]... 125 KB (13,140 words) - 22:42, 25 April 2024 |
Bull-leaping (category Minoan religion) non-violent bull fighting. Some are based on an ancient ritual from the Minoan civilization involving an acrobat leaping over the back of a charging bull (or... 11 KB (1,399 words) - 13:27, 27 October 2023 |
Palace economy (section Middle Minoan Crete) use of the terms came from the study of the palaces of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, which flourished in the Late Bronze Age on Crete and mainland... 17 KB (2,179 words) - 18:32, 1 June 2023 |
Minoan may refer to the following: Minoan, having to do with King Minos Minoan civilization Minoan, the script known as Linear A the (undeciphered) Minoan... 1,010 bytes (157 words) - 05:26, 22 February 2022 |
Archaeology of Greece (section The Minoan civilization) information relevant to the Minoan archaeological record. The Palace of Knossos is an archaeological site belonging to the Minoan civilization along with smaller... 19 KB (2,391 words) - 22:02, 21 December 2023 |
Cycladic culture (redirect from Cycladic civilization) Cycladic and Minoan civilizations.[citation needed] There is some disagreement between the dating systems used for Cycladic civilization, one "cultural"... 14 KB (1,538 words) - 13:54, 29 April 2024 |
Indus Valley Civilisation (redirect from Indus civilization) engineering of the Indus Valley Civilization Wright: "Mesopotamia and Egypt ... co-existed with the Indus civilization during its florescence between 2600... 187 KB (21,219 words) - 16:24, 29 April 2024 |
Ancient Greece (redirect from Hellenic Civilization) Greece (Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the... 79 KB (9,320 words) - 20:57, 25 April 2024 |
Human history (redirect from History of human civilization) Crete, the Minoan civilization emerged by 2000 BCE and is regarded as the first civilization in Europe. Over the following millennia, civilizations developed... 205 KB (22,703 words) - 05:18, 29 April 2024 |
Bronze Age (redirect from Bronze Age civilization) chronometer enabled the precise determination of longitude. The Minoan civilization based in Knossos on the island of Crete appears to have coordinated... 110 KB (12,448 words) - 20:41, 29 April 2024 |
Bull-Leaping Fresco (category Minoan frescos) presents the topic in Chapter III of his monumental work on Knossos and Minoan Civilization, Palace of Minos. There he calls the several frescos "The Taureador... 14 KB (1,544 words) - 09:53, 28 March 2024 |
Linear A (redirect from Minoan Linear A) by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 BC to 1450 BC. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization. It was... 69 KB (5,910 words) - 23:16, 9 April 2024 |