The Jews and the Levant – West Asian history
Jews and the Levant: Tel Kabri, a Canaanite palace ca. 1600 BC When we first meet them... By the end of the Stone Age, the people who would eventually become known [...]
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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 Pottery
Kamares ware (Crete, ca. 2000 BC) While the Mycenaean Greeks were making the gray Minyan Ware, the Minoans on the island of Crete were producing vividly colored pots with black [...]
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Ancient Greek painting – ancient Greece
Attacking a town with ships (Thera, ca. 1600 BC) The oldest paintings in Europe are cave paintings from Western Europe, but the Greeks probably learned to create art not from [...]
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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 [...]
