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Knossos, Crete—the largest Bronze Age archaeological site, spanning over 150,000 square ft, built by the Minoans, Europe’s 1st advanced civilisation.
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Mycenaeans were pretty cool (not as cool as the Minoans though)
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Minoan Ceramic Mugs (2200-1900 BC) : Minoans, one of first advanced civilisations in Europe, used cup to drink wine in Crete, where they resided. Thousands of clay and ceramic cups have been discovered on archeological sites on island. Minoan pottery is more than a useful tool
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The Greeks expanded their settlements across Crete from west to east. The Minoans, who inhabited Crete before the Greeks, are thought to have migrated to the island from the east. https://t.co/bonbRPsFPp
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According to Wikipedia (Crete), Crete was the center of civilization, the Minoans, from 2700 to 1420 BC. However, Minos, the godfather of the Minoan civilization, lived at Cnossus only after 1400 BC. There may have been an older Minos.
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Archaeological finds on the island of Santorini reveal that the Minoans, one of Europe’s earliest advanced civilizations, had developed portable cooking devices more than 3600 years ago. These stone supports, discovered in Akrotiri and now housed in the Museum of Prehistoric
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Want to understand the history of European culture? Start with the Minoans, not the Ancient Greeks https://t.co/O0wlnCiSCJ
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“Crete…how Egyptian of you!” The Comb symbol for Crete goes back to the earliest days of Egypt and is found on many hieroglyphs. The frequent red/black motifs and squares are also links to ancient deep connections to the Minoans.
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The Minoans had tree-altars. Gold seal "ring of Minos" (circa 1500 – 1400 BCE), Heraklion museum
Numerous Minoan gold rings depict individuals shaking trees. This could represent the main form of divination in Bronze age Crete.
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From the Minoans, the first European civilisation, to the Mycenaeans and Trojans; from the Achaeans, Dorians, Ionians, and Macedonians—every Hellenic tribe that forged the ancient world; through the Etruscans, Classical Hellas, Rome, Byzantium, the Italian Renaissance, and into
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hello??? i don’t know how many historians follow me but apparently we know what happened to the minoans, more or less—- the bible says they were the ancestors of palestinians? keftiu is the ancient egyptian name for minoans
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Half a billion pounds of copper “vanished.” Minoans in Michigan. Bronze Age fleets on the Great Lakes. The rumors never die. But the ground tells another story….pits, hammerstones, artifacts and a silence we’ve been filling for over a century. 🧵
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So how do we read the conspiracies? Not as proof of lost civilizations but as a mirror of our hunger for answers when the record runs quiet. The Copper Culture doesn’t need Atlantis or Minoans to impress. It already does: 5,000 years of ingenuity, memory, and meaning, hammered
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Linear A is an undeciphered writing system that was used by the ancient Minoans who flourished on Crete between roughly 2500 B.C. and 1450 B.C. The existence of the script was first noted by archaeologist Arthur Evans, who excavated the Minoan city of Knossos a century ago.
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@ElGrecoAnglos @oulosP @atabeykayi @JackBMontgomery @ElGrecoAnglos furthermore, you're so unfamiliar with genetics that you assume that Anatolian Neolithic Farmers were Greek or Hellenic because of the ANF heritage found in the Mycenaeans and Minoans. What we call the Anatolian Neolithic Farmer here is a secondary component that
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