The Minoans ruled over many islands of the Aegean Sea, but were they ever organised into a single, unified Minoan empire?

Nichols has written a new book on the history of women and car culture. In Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car she explains how cars became a gendered technology.

The Minoan culture, known from the island of Crete, shaped the southeastern Aegean during the Late Bronze Age, a period of prosperity marked by its strong influence on surrounding civilizations ...