Early Minoan Period (c. 3,000-2,000 B.C.E.) Among the earliest Early Minoan pottery types is Incised Ware, characterized by incised decoration of parallel lines creating patterns on the surface of the ...

Later Mycenaean pottery decoration was influenced by the Minoan civilization on Crete. Minoan pottery, which was decorated with whimsical floral and aquatic motifs, was exported to the Greek mainland ...

Minoan Trade RoutesMinoan influence inthe Bronze Age can be traced through archaeology. On the island of Melos there are architectural remnants, pottery, and frescoes in Cretan style, similar to ...

Greek Ministry of CultureA covered coffin from the Minoan times found in Ierapetra, Crete, Greece. In an extraordinary example of being in the wrong place at the right time, a Greek farmer just ...

When Bruins showed me this layer in 2006, I saw a thick layer containing a chaotic jumble of broken Minoan pottery, rocks, lumps of grey volcanic ash, and mashed-up animal teeth and bones.

This pioneering research opens new avenues for studying ancient pottery and provides a model for future archaeological investigations. The findings not only enrich our knowledge of Minoan pottery ...

What ever happened to the Minoan civilization ... theory did not quite square with all the available facts; some of the pottery found on Crete, for example, had apparently been fashioned as ...