The burning light of a magnificent civilisation, which awed the ancient Greeks, dimmed and then suddenly disappeared. Discover Dr Floyd McCoy's theory of the Minoan collapse. Three and a half ...

But the Minoans had built their prosperous city on one of the most dangerous islands on earth, next to the volcano Thera. Around 1600, B.C., Akrotiri was shaken by a violent earthquake.

The Minoan culture, known from the island of Crete, shaped the southeastern Aegean during the Late Bronze Age, a period of ...

Dating the ancient Minoan eruption of Thera using tree rings. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 08 / 180815141326.htm ...

A History of the World is a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the BBC, and schools, museums and ...

It is not often that a museum plays a leading role in one of its own shows, but that is the case with Oxford’s Ashmolean: for its new exhibition of Minoan archaeology and artefacts the museum ...

The recent excavation at the Minoan palace of Archanes, in Crete, has yielded an extraordinary and unique discovery under the direction of archaeologist Dr. Efi Sapouna-Sakellarakis.This investigation ...

After decades studying the Minoans, MacGillivray is struck by the scale of the destruction. "The Minoans are so confident in their navy that they're living in unprotected cities all along the ...