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Minoan art is often described as having a fantastical or ecstatic quality, with figures rendered in a manner suggesting motion. Little is known about the structure of Minoan society. Minoan art contains no unambiguous depiction of a monarch, and textual evidence suggests they may have had some other form of governance.
The inhabitants of Crete were named Minoans by Arthur Evans, after the legendary king. [citation needed] It seems that the Minoans travelled from Crete down to Egypt, Syria and Mari of Euphrates, to Asia Minor and the Black Sea through the Aegean islands, [5] and to the west up to Lipari (Aeolian islands) to the north of Sicily. [6]
Minoan religion was the religion of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization of Crete. In the absence of readable texts from most of the period, modern scholars have reconstructed it almost totally on the basis of archaeological evidence such as Minoan paintings , statuettes, vessels for rituals and seals and rings .
The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe. During the Iron Age , Crete developed an Ancient Greece -influenced organization of city-states , then successively became part of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Venetian Republic , the Ottoman Empire , an autonomous state, and the modern state of Greece .
The ancestry of the Mycenaeans could be explained via a 2-way admixture model of such MBA individuals in northern Greece, and either an EBA Aegean or MBA Minoan population. [234] A study by Lazaridis et al. (2022) analysed 21 new Mycenaean samples and one new Minoan sample, along with previously published samples.
Gustave Doré's illustration of King Minos for Dante Alighieri's Inferno Mural of Minos at the National and Kapodistrain University of Athens. In Greek mythology, Minos (/ˈmaɪnɒs, -nəs/; Greek: Μίνως, [mǐːnɔːs]) was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa.
Minoan civilization was affected by a number of natural cataclysms, such as the volcanic eruption at Thera (c. 1628-1627 BC) and earthquakes (c. 1600 BC). [21] In 1425 BC, all the Minoan palaces except Knossos were devastated by fire, which allowed the Mycenaean Greeks , influenced by the Minoans' culture, to expand into Crete. [ 21 ]
The earliest Minoan settlement of Miletus dates to 2000 BC. [9] Beginning at about 1900 BC artifacts of the Minoan civilization acquired by trade arrived at the site. [ 8 ] For some centuries the location received a strong impulse from that civilization, an archaeological fact that tends to support but not necessarily confirm the founding ...