Minoan Greece had fast food 3,600 years ago, with food stalls serving dishes like souvlaki, a beloved Greek staple still popular today.

When did the Minoans rise to power? A few thousand years ago. Minoan culture emerges on the island of Crete and develops into one of the major maritime trading nations. The Minoan settlement of ...

The untouched Bronze Age tomb and the skeletons inside will hopefully provide archaeologists with information about the ...

As Minoan culture and trade radiated across the Aegean, communities on the islands of the Cyclades and the Dodecanese (near the coast of modern-day Turkey) were radically changed through contact ...

With the other population on the island, they traded traditional foods and vegetables. A great deal of Minoan culture was incorporated into Mycenaean culture after the Mycenaeans took over the islands ...

The ancient Greek roots of the cross symbol, its significance in cosmology, religion, and philosophy, long before ...

Throughout the Middle Minoan period and down to the fifteenth century (i.e., from about 2000–1450 B.C.) the hub of that culture was Crete Only later was it forced to center itself on Phoenician ...

This reinforces the hypothesis that Minoan writing was not limited to accounting but also played a role in religious and ceremonial contexts. On the other hand, the handle of the object bears a ...