A fertile soil and abundant supplies helped to make the Minoans a prosperous civilization. These cities spread across the Aegean and beyond, using crete as an export outlet for timber, food, wine, ...

In addition to their mysterious writing system (which continues to stump linguists), they are also known for their mummy-like attributes. A great deal of Minoan culture was incorporated into Mycenaean ...

As Minoan culture and trade radiated across the Aegean ... Its vibrant culture made a major impact on the rising new regional power: the Mycenaean Greeks, who lauded King Minos and Crete in ...

and colleagues focussed on burials from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island of Crete from 2,600 to 1,100 BC, and the Mycenaean culture, which existed across Greece from 1,600 ...

All this Mycenaean ware belongs, with one exception, to the close of the third Late Minoan period ... East of the Struma no traces of Mycenaean culture are recorded along the European shore ...