Minotaur – the Labyrinth – Greek mythology
Pasiphae holds the baby Minotaur Pasiphae and Minos Once upon a time on the island of Crete, maybe about 1325 BC, Europa's son Minos became the king of Crete, and his wife was [...]
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Minoan Crete – Bronze Age Greece
Map of Minoan Crete Where did the Minoans come from? Sometime in the Neolithic period - the Late Stone Age - people came to live on the island of Crete [...]
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Minoan and Mycenaean Sculpture
Bull dancing sculpture from Minoan Crete, now in the British Museum Bronze Age sculpture on Crete In the Bronze Age there was not a lot of sculpture in Greece. In [...]
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Minoan and Mycenaean Greek painting
Dolphin fresco, Knossos, Crete (about 1500 BC) Although people in Northern Europe were doing cave paintings tens of thousands of years earlier, the first paintings from Greece are not until [...]
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Minoan and Mycenaean architecture
Bronze Age palace in Knossos, Crete Around 1700 BC, a great earthquake shook the island of Crete and knocked down the palaces (or big houses) that many people had been [...]
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Why do people plaster walls? History of Architecture
A bit of plaster left on the wall of a Punic house from Carthage People used plaster to cover the bare stone or mudbrick on the walls of houses, both [...]
