The Minoans ruled over many islands of the Aegean Sea, but were they ever organised into a single, unified Minoan empire?

Archaeologists excavated a Bronze Age shipwreck off Turkey, uncovering copper ingots and Minoan artifacts revealing ancient trade routes.

The Minoans were among the first advanced civilization in Europe. According to the museum, the cups were mass-produced on Crete around 1700-1600 BC.

Long before Athens or Rome, the Minoans built a thriving, seafaring civilization on the island of Crete marked by grand palaces, advanced art, and undeciphered writing. This video explores who the ...

DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete. The findings suggest they arose from an ...

During the Bronze Age, elite members of the Minoan civilization flaunted their prosperity by throwing large, lavish parties. To make the clean-up process easier, these ancients relied on a ...

The finds on Chrysi — a now uninhabited island — show the high value placed on the rare purple dye and the flourishing economy of the settlement between 3,800 and 3,500 years ago, during the ...

The Minoans, the builders of Europe's first advanced civilization, really were European, new research suggests. The conclusion, published today (May 14) in the journal Nature Communications, was ...

Near the town of Palaikastro, located at the eastern end of the island of Crete, lies the archaeological site of a city from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island during the Bronze ...

The Minoan Civilization flourished on Crete and other islands in the Aegean Sea from around 3,000 B.C. to 1,100 B.C.

About 3,500 years ago, the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete developed a writing system composed of syllabic signs, called Linear A, which they sometimes used to inscribe offerings at ...

A storehouse of ancient treasures, including precious jewels and gold beads, has been uncovered by archaeologists on an island near Crete devoted to making a precious purple dye from sea snails.