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Ross T. Christensen has propounded the theory that the Mulekites in the Book of Mormon were "largely Phoenician in their ethnic origin." [5] In his 1871 book Ancient America, John Denison Baldwin repeats some of the arguments given for Phoenician visits to America, but ultimately refutes them, saying:
The Cyclades were in the Minoan cultural orbit and, closer to Crete, the islands of Karpathos, Saria and Kasos also contained middle-Bronze Age (MMI-II) Minoan colonies or settlements of Minoan traders. Most were abandoned in LMI, but Karpathos recovered and continued its Minoan culture until the end of the Bronze Age. [42]
There may be a connection with the mythic king of Crete, Minos, during the Bronze Age Minoan civilization which flourished in Crete and in the Aegean islands in Greece between 2000–1470 BC. The inhabitants of Crete were named Minoans by Arthur Evans, after the legendary king. [citation needed]
His book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, is a work of sheer fiction presented as revisionist history. Not a single document or artifact has been found to support his new claims on the supposed Ming naval expeditions beyond Africa...Menzies' numerous claims and the hundreds of pieces of "evidence" he has assembled have been thoroughly ...
The Middle Minoan I period goes from around 2000 B.C.E. to 1800 B.C.E. The final period, Middle Minoan II, took place around 1700 B.C.E. Materials such as cups, votives, and other pottery were found from all of these periods, yet most votives and pottery were found from the Middle Minoan II period.
Minoan material culture shows increased international influence, for instance in the adoption of Minoan seals based on the older Near Eastern seal. Minoan settlements grew, some doubling in size, and monumental buildings were constructed at sites that would later become palaces. [15] [17] EM III (c. 2200-2100 BC) saw the continuation of these ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
The stamps of 1896, which were printed in France and released to coincide with the opening of the games on 6 April (O.S. 25 March), included depictions of the Nike of Paionios and the so-called Hermes of Praxiteles, two works of sculpture recently discovered in the excavations at ancient Olympia, as well as a statue of a discus thrower ...