Perhaps the inspiration for Atlantis, Minoan civilization born on the island of Crete spread throughout the Mediterranean before it mysteriously collapsed. Many myths and legends of Crete center ...

3. Crete before the Palaces: earliest prehistory – EM II (130,00–2200 BC) 4. The rise and early maturity of Minoan civilization in the period of the First Palaces, 1950-1700 BC (MM IB – I) 5. The ...

The palace at Knossos on Crete was an important centre for the Minoan civilization DNA is shedding light on the people who built Greece's earliest civilizations. Researchers analysed genetic data ...