Minoan

In the twenty-first century BC, the land of the birth of Europe as early as the Minoan civilization and the Mycenaean civilization.

There is evidence to show that athletic contests took place in Ancient Egypt and in the ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete.

Indebted to the Egyptians and Mesopotamians, Minoan and Mycenaean Greece fashioned a wealthy, sophisticated commercial culture.

In the art of Mycenaean and Minoan times, the sphinx is a common motif: she is usually winged and crowned.

It also has stunning historic sites like the famed 4, 000-year-old Minoan palace of Knossos.

Correspondence of Minoan cultural artifacts with aspects of the Atlantis legend make the identity of the two seem virtually certain.

Excavations of ancient Minoan frescos on the Island of Crete indicate that games involving bulls started as early as 1500 B. C.

The sports of Minoan bull - leaping is a kind of sports religion among ancient Crete residents.

You can read Linear Ausing Linear B sounds - but because no one knows Minoan, we cannot besure if the words are correct.

Then there are others who maintain that our hero was a nameless MINOAN (a native of ancient Crete) who lived some 4, 000 years ago.

The Minoan civilization disappeared suddenly at about the same time as the volcanic eruption.

Now consider this: The Minoan palace at Knossos, just outside the city of Iraklion, was built in 1900 BC, 1, 453 years before the Parthenon.

Kommos: A Minoan Harbour Town and Greek Sanctuary in Southern Crete

the minoan culture: the island of crete