Archaeologists excavated a Bronze Age shipwreck off Turkey, uncovering copper ingots and Minoan artifacts revealing ancient trade routes.

As a result of trade, the Minoans became wealthy. How did the Minoan civilization develop? Minoan arts and crafts were brought to Greece first via trade with the early Greeks. Crete lies in ...

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

DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete. The findings suggest they arose from an ...

The civilization made famous by the myth of the Minotaur was as warlike as their bull-headed mascot, new research suggests. The ancient people of Crete, also known as Minoan, were once thought to ...

Atlantis, the ancient myth of an island civilization washed away by the sea, probably has origins with the Minoan civilization, which vanished around 1,600 B.C. A tsunami tied to the massive ...

The Minoan civilization existed from around 2600 to 1100 B.C. and the Mycenaeans existed from around 1700 to 1050 B.C. The Minoans have long puzzled historians.

The civilization made famous by the myth of the Minotaur was as warlike as their bull-headed mascot, new research suggests. The ancient people of Crete, also known as Minoan, were once thought to ...

Many of our ideas about Minoan civilization—drawn largely from the ruins of Knossos—are, at least in part, products of artful imagination. By Edward Rothstein Nov. 21, 2017 1:56 pm ET Share ...

The Minoan Civilization flourished on Crete and other islands in the Aegean Sea from around 3,000 B.C. to 1,100 B.C.