In the Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete, a throne room built during the 15th century BC is considered the oldest such room in Europe.

Despite the importance of Crete to ancient Greek civilization, archaeological study of its culture is relatively recent. Some of the earliest traces of a powerful, Bronze Age civilization were ...

In 1950 the Santorini volcano experienced its last eruption, closing a cycle of volcanic activity that had begun in 1939.

the civilization evolved. Crete is part of Greece today, but it was once a part of Crete. In particular, their temple at Knossos was a magnificent piece of architecture. The "Minoans" did not exist ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

In the early prehistoric era, minoans populated Crete, where they built an advanced civilization. This civilization flourished ... and a pig herder worked together. In ancient Minoa, farmers had to ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world ... on mainland Greece but on the nearby island of Crete, between 2200BC and 1450BC.