@artemiscollective: Who were the Minoans? Part 1 🏺 | Long before Classical Greece, the Minoans built palace complexes on Crete, traded with Egypt and Syria, produced some of the most distinctive art of the Bronze Age, and wrote in a language we still can't read. At Knossos, archaeologists uncovered enormous storage magazines, the so-called Throne Room, the famous Snake Goddess figurines, vivid frescoes, and hundreds of administrative tablets. The palace itself stretched across more than 20,000 square metres and functioned as a major religious, economic, and political centre. And by its final phase, something had changed. The last administrative records at Knossos were written not in Linear A, but in Linear B: Greek. This is one of the clearest signs that the palace had eventually fallen under Mycenaean control. Learn more in part 2. 👀 Sources: Evans, Arthur J. The Palace of Minos at Knossos. 4 vols. London: Macmillan, 1921–1935. Castleden, Rodney. The Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the 'Palace of Minos' at Knossos. London: Routledge, 1990. Hood, Sinclair. The Minoans: Crete in the Bronze Age. London: Thames and Hudson, 1971. Momigliano, Nicoletta. "Knossos 1902, 1905: The Prepalatial and Protopalatial Deposits from the Room of the Jars in the Royal Pottery Stores." Annual of the British School at Athens 95 (2000): 1–60. Lapatin, Kenneth D. S. "Snake Goddess or Snake Handler?" Archaeology 54, no. 1 (January/February 2001): 32–36. Shapland, Andrew. "Knossos: Seeking the Labyrinth." The Past, March 20, 2023. "The Snake Goddesses." Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Accessed 2026. Driessen, Jan, and Colin F. Macdonald. The Troubled Island: Minoan Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption. Aegaeum 17. Liège: Université de Liège, 1997. "Knossos." World Archaeology, September 18, 2018. #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #bronzeage #minoans #historytok

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