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- Late Minoan Painting and Other Representational Art - Lesson 14: Late Minoan Painting and Other Representational Art: Pottery, Frescoes, Steatite Vases, Ivories, and Bronzes
- The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean - Dartmouth College provides searchable text, galleries of expandable thumbnail photographs and bibliographies on topics including Minoan and Mycenean architecture.
- Art of the Aegean: Mycenae and Tiryns - including the Citadel at Mycenae
- Art of the Cyclades and Crete - Ancient Art of the Aegean series - includes Knossos
- Barbarians and Bureaucrats - A series of chapters on the history and culture of Minoan, Mycenean, and Dark Ages Greece from Washington State University.
- Ancient Greek Civilizations - Minoans, Myceneans and their rise, Homer, the Odyssey, the Illiad, and heir Dark Ages.
- Minoans, Myceneans, and the Greek Dark Ages - The civilization of Crete and southern Greece up until the time of Homer with an atlas and a gallery.
- Museum of Classical Archaeology - Has casts of classical sculpture, pottery and shard collections, replicas of coins, miniature bronzes and ivories, and Minoan and Mycenean reproductions. Includes opening hours, description and history of the museum, what's on guide, cast collection search, and information for researchers and teachers.
Wikipedia Articles
- Minoan pottery - Minoan pottery is more than a useful tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization. Its restless sequence of rapidly-maturing artistic styles reveal something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they help archaeologists assign relative dates to the strata of their sites.
- Cypro-Minoan syllabary - The Cypro-Minoan syllabary, also known as CM or Linear C is the Late Bronze Age syllabary used on Minoan Cyprus (in use roughly from the 15th to the 12th centuries BCE; i.e.
- Minoan civilization - The Minoan civilization was a bronze age civilization which arose on Crete, an island in the Aegean Sea. The Minoan culture flourished from approximately 2700 to 1450 BC; afterwards, Mycenaean Greek culture became dominant on Crete.
- Minoan chronology - Minoan chronology refers to the relative dating scheme developed by Sir Arthur Evans for the Bronze Age in Crete based on the excavations initiated and managed by him at the site of the ancient city of Knossos. He called the civilization that he discovered there Minoan.
- Minoan eruption - The Minoan eruption of Thera (VEI = 7, DRE = 60 km3) was a major catastrophic volcanic eruption around 1600 BCE. The eruption was one of the largest volcanic events on Earth in recorded history.