Minoan, a venture-backed startup pursuing precisely this vision, calls it “native retail.” The company says it has already assembled a “network” of nearly 10,000 venues (mostly short-term ...

The Minoan civilisation arose on the Mediterranean island of Crete in approximately the 27th century BC and flourished for 12 centuries until the 15th century BC. But the culture was lost until ...

Who were the Minoans? The Minoan people of Crete built magnificent palaces, developed systems of writing and were able to make tools and sculptures from bronze. Crete had no natural sources of ...

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in Bronze Age Crete by Dr Steve Kershaw and comedian Josie Long to learn all about the ancient Minoan civilisation. Show more In this episode, Greg Jenner is ...

Archaeologists and scientists connected the violent eruption of the Santorini volcano with the end of the flourishing Minoan ...

It is not often that a museum plays a leading role in one of its own shows, but that is the case with Oxford’s Ashmolean: for its new exhibition of Minoan archaeology and artefacts the museum ...

The structure belonged to the Minoan civilization and was mainly used between 2000 and 1700 B.C.E., around the same time that Crete’s monumental palaces at Knossos and Phaistos were built ...

IN this book the experiment is tried of assigning modern Basque values to the Minoan characters on bronze age tablets from Crete. As Mr. Gordon says (p. 1), “such a method must obviously begin ...

Credit: Peter M. Fischer / Oxford Journal of Archaeology Researchers have found a Minoan bronze mirror in an intact Late Bronze Age tomb at the archaeological site of Hala Sultan Tekke on the ...

No other Minoan structures like it have been found, according to archaeologist and Culture Minister Lina Mendoni. The entire structure covers about 19,000 square feet, and consists of eight ...