Behind the myth of the Minotaur lies the ancient Minoan civilisation – a culture steeped in ritual, rich in symbolism, and ...

Joyful Minoan frescoes are a testament to the sophistication of that early culture. The Minoans thrived on the Greek isle of Crete from 2000 to 1100 BC. The remains of their palace and the joyful ...

Discovery of a rare Minoan sealstone in the treasure-laden tomb of a Bronze Age Greek warrior promises to rewrite the history of ancient Greek art Date: November 7, 2017 Source: University of ...

It’s the tomb that keeps on giving. More than two years since its discovery, a treasure-filled Greek tomb has offered up perhaps its most significant find to date: a Minoan stone carving so ...

Located at the highest point of Papoura Hill, at an altitude of 1,620 feet, the complex dates to between 2000–1700 B.C.E., at the onset of Minoan civilization.

Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a ...

Restored Kamares Ware Terracotta Bridge-Spouted Jar (Middle Minoan II–III Period, 1900–1600 BCE), terracotta, Knossos (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Ashmolean ...

The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming.

Arts Cleveland Museum of Art hires Seth Pevnick as ‘profoundly ethical’ curator of ancient Greek and Roman art Updated: Dec. 20, 2018, 1:48 p.m. | Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 6:00 a.m.

The same holds for Greek Linear B and Minoan Linear A. In 1956 when Ventris and Chadwick published their Documents in Mycenaean Greek, I was enabled to make the decisive step toward the ...

Before going to St. Petersburg in 2018, Bennett had worked for many years at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he was viewed as a leading U.S. expert in the field of Greek and Roman art.