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

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

Minoan civilization declined by the late 15th century B.C., but the exact cause is unknown. One theory is that the volcanic eruption on Thera damaged other cities along Minoan trade routes, which ...

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 ...

Minoan Crete was also a center of early Greek civilization. The surviving jewelry, ceramic and fresco treasures leave no doubt Minoans loved the beautiful.

minoans helped build the first civilization on European soil, and are considered by many to be one of the finest civilizations in human history. During the Minoan period, between 2000 BCE and 1400 BCE ...

A 3,400-year-old Minoan tomb was uncovered in an unnamed farmer's olive grove near the city of Ierapetra on the Greek island of Crete. According to Cretapost, the farmer was attempting to park his ...

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 ...

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 Minoan Civilization of Crete, often hailed as Europe’s first literate society, left behind a strange writing system that continues to mystify modern scholars, remaining an unsolved enigma to ...