In the 1990s, this fresco was discovered in the ruins of the Knossos palace guest house by famed archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, and remains in the Heraklion Museum. Unlike wall paintings made by the ...

The remains of a Minoan ... fresco joins others of Aegean style that have been uncovered during earlier seasons at the Canaanite palace in Kabri. Tel Kabri is the only site in Israel where wall ...

The minotaur also emerged as a figure in Modern art, whether the paintings of Pablo Picasso or the sculptures of Max Ernst; a French cruise line even decorated an entire ship in the Minoan style.

Scholars declared the 'Akrotiri Boxer' fresco one of the finest examples of Minoan painting when it was discovered in 1967. It's one of the wall paintings of Thera unearthed at Akrotiri on the ...

The Minoans were a literate Bronze Age civilization that flourished thousands of years ago (one woman shown dancing, in a fresco fragment that dates from 1600-1450 BCE). Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

The original 'Dolphin Fresco,' a masterpiece of Minoan art and a symbol of Aegean civilization, is housed in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum. The fresco detached yesterday afternoon due to the ...

The blue monkey fresco at Akrotiri ... Archaeologists and primatologists re-analyzing wall paintings found in Akrotiri, a Minoan settlement on Thera (modern-day Santorini) buried by volcanic ...

The history of Minoan Crete is broken into Early, Middle, and Late Minoan periods, and although the exact dates for narrower subdivisions are debated, the broad chronological dates for these major ...

Analysis of the paintings in the tomb of Thutmose III ... existing notions about ancient Egyptian art and suggested cultural exchanges with the Minoan civilization. Catherine Defeyt, a FED-tWIN ...

This two day event brings together scientists, archaeologists, and students who participated in the research project to study the fresco paintings at the ancient Roman Port of Ostia Antica this past ...