According to Ancient Minoan marriage rules, first cousin marriages were nothing unusual in the particular society.

The Minoans were a powerful but mysterious naval civilization in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, but how was their calendar like?

How did Minoans gain their wealth? In ancient Minoan society, wealth was a standard of living. Trade was the source of wealth for them. Trade with Egypt and Syria was conducted through ships they ...

Small villages were the main places of residence for the Minoans, who were farmers. Besides wheat, barley, grapes, and olives, they grew barley and grapes. A goat herder, a cattle breeder, a sheep ...

Minoan artifacts and cooking equipment have been found at Miletus, a city in Anatolia that would have attracted the Cretans for its proximity to sources of metal. Thucydides’ vision of ancient ...

A 4,000-year-old circular structure discovered on a hilltop in Greece may have been used for ancient Minoan rituals, archaeologists report. Consisting of eight superimposed stone rings with small ...

The Minoans were the first great Greek civilisation ... There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’. Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth Olympia So ...

The Minoans made wine here in the 20th century B.C.,” said Ergin Ince, the guide that one of my hotels, Six Senses Kaplankaya ...