| The Hittites, the Minoans, and other early civilizations left drawings of swimming and diving skills. |
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| You can still trip along mule paths, too, the very ones tramped by the ancient Minoans, into gorges bursting with wild flowers. |
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| The Minoans produced gems of a different style, with designs of warriors, gods, and naturalistic animals. |
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| In other ways they differed from the Minoans in being more warlike, having defended settlements, and a strong emphasis on weapons as grave goods. |
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| An even older one, the Labyrinth game found on the island of Crete, dated back to the Minoans. |
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| The colour purple goes back to the Phoenicians, the Minoans and of course, the Romans who adopted purple as the royal colour. |
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| The tsunami, ash blanket and destruction of Thira greatly weakened the dominant Minoans. |
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| If they're stressed, the actors show no sign of it as they set to work, sorting the children out into Athenians, heroes and Minoans. |
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| With an estimated population of 250,000 people, the Minoans traded with the people of the Fertile Crescent. |
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| His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation. |
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| The Minoans of Crete have long been a popular choice, though there are plenty of other suggestions, one of which, Troy, has been given fresh support by Zangger. |
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| Moreover, during that same time the Minoans invented a form of writing based on a hieroglyphic system. |
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| The Minoans were not Greek and spoke the Cypriot language and so the established hypothesis was that there was some relation between Linear A and B and the Cypriot script. |
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| The Minoans enjoyed a rather bizarre sport where gymnasts faced a charging bull, grabbed its horns, and somersaulted over its back. |
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| In the sky left a big fish is a reminder that for the Minoans, the origin of humanity was out of the water. |
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| Now bull riding's been around since the Minoans were leaping over animals 3,000 years ago, but today's enthusiasts want to jump on, not jump over. |
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| When Thera erupted, the Minoans would have been clobbered by tsunamis, overwater pyroclastic flows, and fires from oil lamps knocked over by the eruption's shockwave. |
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| It wasn't on the programme at the Ancient Greek Olympics, though the Minoans may have used poles to leap over the bulls during bull-dancing events. |
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| They were a northern race from Illyria and a less technologically developed society than the Minoans. |
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| The Minoans were followed by the Myceneans, who collapsed suddenly around 1200 BC, ushering the European Iron Age. |
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| Ancient art often included dolphin representations, including the Cretan Minoans. |
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| Polyrrhenia, an important ancient western Cretan city, was founded with the help of the Achaeans, who succeeded the Minoans as overlords of the island. |
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| But when it came to interpreting the evidence, Evan's prejudices both scholarly and political held sway. Thus the Minoans became part of Evans's late-Victorian world view. |
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| It's quite possible that our records will be as inaccessible a century from now as those of the ancient Minoans were to the language detectives in this book. |
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| Long before the existence of classical Greece, Crete and the surrounding islands were home to the advanced and highly cultured society of the Minoans. |
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| It is unknown which divinity the Minoans worshipped in the cave, but the preponderance of jugs and other pouring vessels over cups and bowls indicates the pouring of liquids was a significant element of the cult. |
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| What is not so surprising, given that the Minoans might be from! |
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| The Minoans had developed what was then an extremely advanced irrigation system, including several aqueducts. |
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| The Romans did not invent plumbing or toilets, but instead borrowed their waste disposal system from their neighbors, particularly the Minoans. |
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| Dolphins also seem to have been important to the Minoans, judging by artistic evidence from the ruined palace at Knossos. |
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| In the later Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, under the Minoans, Crete had a highly developed, literate civilization. |
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| Quite unlike the Minoans, whose society benefited from trade, the Mycenaeans advanced through conquest. |
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| Opium was traded from Egypt by the Phoenicians and Minoans to destinations around the Mediterranean Sea, including Greece, Carthage, and Europe. |
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| The Minoans are believed to have inspired Plato's story about the end of Atlantis. |
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| The Minoans were famous for their carefree lifestyle, which is clearly reflected in their art. |
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| Hoping to finally settle the question of whatever happened to the Minoans are several archaeologists who have managed to spend 25 years poking around on the beaches of Crete. |
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| The Mycenaeans gradually absorbed the Minoans, but collapsed violently around 1200 BC, during a time of regional upheaval known as the Bronze Age collapse. |
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| These civilizations possessed writing, the Minoans writing in an undeciphered script known as Linear A, and the Mycenaeans in Linear B, an early form of Greek. |
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| Indeed, the Minoan frescoes depicting dolphins in Queen's Megaron at Knossos indicate that Minoans were well aware of and celebrated these creatures. |
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