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The Bull-Leaping Fresco from Knossos showing bull-leaping, c. 1450 BC; probably, the dark skinned figure is a man and the two light skinned figures are women. The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia.
The Linear A tablet PH-1 that was originally found by archaeologist Zakarias Iliakis next to the Phaistos Disc [3]. The Phaistos Disc was discovered in the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos, near Hagia Triada, on the south coast of Crete; specifically the disc was found in the basement of room 8 in building 101 of a group of buildings to the northeast of the main palace.
A seal stone is one of the various artifacts that archaeologists uncovered in the time of the Bronze Age in Greece, specifically in Phourni. The seal stones found at Phourni are particularly important because it is the largest collection found at a single site in northern Crete. [7] There were 136 seals found at the site. [7]
He also identified the stone throne as the seat of the mythical king of Crete, Minos, evidently applied Greek mythology. On the other hand, archaeologists Helga Reusch and Friedriech Matz suggested that the throne room was a sanctuary of a female divinity and that a priestess who sat there was her impersonator. [ 5 ]
Phaistos (Greek: ΦαιστΟς, pronounced; Ancient Greek: ΦαιστΟς, pronounced [pΚ°aiΜ―stós], Linear B: πππ΅ Pa-i-to; Linear A: πππ Pa-i-to [1]), also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality in south central Crete.
A kouloura, or kouloures (Greek plural koulourai), is a circular subsurface pit with stone walls found in certain settlements within Ancient Crete, including the Minoan palaces at Phaistos, Knossos, and Malia. [1] According to the stratigraphy, the kouloura were all constructed around MM II (1850–1750 BC). [2]
Gournia (Greek: ΓουρνιΞ¬) is the site of a Minoan palace complex in the Lasithi regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece.Its modern name originated from the many stone troughs that are at the site and its original name for the site is unknown. [1]
The Dreros inscription is the earliest surviving inscribed law from ancient Greece. It was discovered in Dreros, an ancient settlement on the island of Crete, in 1936, and first published by Pierre Demargne and Henri van Effenterre in 1937. Thirteen stones inscribed with archaic letters were discovered in a Hellenistic cistern in Dreros. [1]