1. It may be that Minoan ships were built and repaired here.

2. This was at the very end of the Minoan period, during a time of earthquakes.

3. A plain black obsidian which the Minoan craftsmen tried may have come from the Siftlik area of Cappadocia.

4. How far the other goddesses in the Minoan pantheon were separate independent deities is very hard to tell.

5. Both the Minoan Goddess and Artemis were pictured as bees.

6. The art of the Minoan seal cutters, like other aspects of the culture(), was falling gradually into decay.

7. In Minoan Crete, Potnia is shown with attendant lions or griffins.

8. Kolymba is believed to be a Minoan dock basin, and it may be that Minoan ships were built and repaired here.

9. It may have wiped out the Minoan civilization in Crete.

10. How much further west the Minoan merchantmen sailed remains a matter for speculation: possibly as far as southern Britain.

11. Certainly we should not see the Minoan frescoes as simple interior decoration.

12. They often showed scenes from Minoan mythology or religious symbols, which gave the sealing the extra dimension of defence by superstition.

13. The form of the Minoan town house is known from several ivory and faience plaques depicting house elevations.

14. Clearly, devising a political map of Minoan Crete is fraught with problems.

15. The Minoan faience artists achieved very high levels of technical ability.

16. So ancient myths were not new to Minoan Crete.

17. The new style of Minoan pottery was sharply defined.

18. The most significant were the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations.

19. In the absence of detailed documentary evidence, we can only make inferences about Minoan religion.

20. The archaeologist dated the ruins as belonging to the early Minoan period.

21. Perhaps the religious symbol most strongly associated with the Minoan culture is the double-axe.

22. What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development, a typical feature of Minoan civilization.

23. Nevertheless, the excavations at Mallia may provide evidence that Minoan society had other dimensions.

24. They were, one senses, hot-blooded creators, these citizens of the Minoan towns.

25. Willetts detects in these later stories a reminiscence of a Minoan initiation ordeal.

26. Some bronze and clay fittings imply that there were at least two large statues on Minoan Crete, i.e. life-size or larger.

27. The only real mystery is the precise mechanism by which the inner band of Minoan colonies was established.

28. The Knossos Labyrinth was exceptional in its size and complexity, but there was a strong family likeness among the Minoan temples.

29. This is, at least, one way of explaining an otherwise very peculiar aspect of Minoan religion - the daemons.

30. At this time the agricultural techniques and crafts seen in the Early Minoan period were developed further.

1. In the absence of detailed documentary evidence, we can only make inferences about Minoan religion.

31. A colossal tsunami destroyed the minoan civilization in minutes.

32. The coastal villages of Crete were flooded and destroyed. The only major Minoan structure surviving the waves and earthquakes was the palace at Knossos, far enough inland to escape the tidal waves.

33. You can read Linear Ausing Linear B sounds - but because no one knows Minoan, we cannot besure if the words are correct.

34. Many ancient Greek myths take their location from Minoan Crete more than ten centuries before Plato. Daedalus, the ancient scientist, was supposedly the architect of the palace at Knossos.

35. Santorini was also a Minoan land, and ruins can be found throughout the island.

36. A group of scientists have uncovered new evidence that the island of Crete was hit by a massive tsunami at the same time that Minoan culture disappeared.

37. It also has stunning historic sites like the famed 4,000-year-old Minoan palace of Knossos.

38. This same foolhardy practice is richly illustrated in remaining Minoan artwork.

39. But, after more than a thousand years of dominance, the Minoan culture came to an abrupt end, circa 1470 BC.

40. The Minoan civilization disappeared suddenly at about the same time as the volcanic eruption.

41. Perhaps the most unusual of these is the Minoan bull fighting.

42. It is not clear if the tsunami could have reached inland to the Minoan capital at Knossos, but the fallout from the volcano would have carried other consequences - massive ash falls and crop failure.

43. Archaeological records show that the Minoan culture spread its dominion throughout the nearby islands of the Aegean, very roughly from 3000 years BC to about 1400 years BC.

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44. Regardless of the legend, Minoan culture extended across the island of Crete, with most of its developments along the northern coast of Crete.

45. One such volcano-induced landslide occurred thousands of years ago in the Greek islands, causing the Minoan civilization to be wiped from the map.

46. There is evidence to show that athletic contests took place in Ancient Egypt and in the ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete.