Small villages were the main places of residence for the Minoans, who were farmers. Besides wheat, barley, grapes, and olives, they grew barley and grapes. A goat herder, a cattle breeder, a sheep ...

The discovery of the Snake Goddess made researchers focus on the mysterious religion of Minoan Crete and its connection of ...

Plato describes in detail the Temple of Poseidon on Atlantis, which appears to be identical to the Palace of Knossos on the ...

In particular, their temple at Knossos was a magnificent piece of architecture. The "Minoans" did not exist before or after the Spartans in ancient times. How did the mycenaeans gain wealth and power ...

Minoan artifacts and cooking equipment have been found at Miletus, a city in Anatolia that would have attracted the Cretans for its proximity to sources of metal. Thucydides’ vision of ancient ...

Getty Images Reconstruction of a fresco at Knossos showing Minoan women "With ancient DNA we can now begin to answer this question." Dr Lazaridis explained that most of the people who created ...