minoan
41Pseira — The minute, barren cliff bound coastal island of Pseira (modern Gk. Psira) in the Gulf of Mirabella in northeastern Crete is a Minoan site that was explored in 1906 ndash;07 by Richard Seager and partially documented by Halvor Bagge in ink and… …
42Western sculpture — ▪ art Introduction three dimensional artistic forms produced in what is now Europe and later in non European areas dominated by European culture (such as North America) from the Metal Ages (Europe, history of) to the present. Like… …
43Knossos — For the ferry, see MS Knossos. Knossos Minoan Palace Knossos (alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Greek Κνωσός pronounced [knoˈsos]), also known as Labyrinth, or Knossos Palace, is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and… …
44Karfi — Karfi, Crete, (also Karphi) is a little visited archaeological site high in the Dikti Mountains that is akin to Machu Picchu for the Minoan civilization. When the warlike mixed group conventionally referred to as Dorians arrived in Crete from the …
45painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present. Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …
46Linear A — Infobox Writing system name=Linear A type=Undeciphered typedesc=(likely Syllabic and Ideographic) languages= Minoan (unknown) time=Possibly from MM IB to LM IIIA differentiated to =Linear B and Linear Cypriot iso15924=LinaLinear A is one of two… …
47Mycenaean pottery — is the pottery, produced by Mycenaean potters and divided by archaeologists into a series of stylistic phases, which can be grouped into four major stages, which roughly correspond with cultural/historical stages. Contents 1 Chronology 1.1… …
48Western architecture — Introduction history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present. The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …
49Santorini — Infobox Greek Isles name = Santorini native name = Σαντορίνη skyline = Santorinisunset.jpg sky caption = View across collapsed caldera coordinates = coord|36|25.2|N|25|25.9|E chain = Cyclades isles = area = 73 highest mount = elevation = periph …
50Labrys — An ornamented golden Minoan labrys Labrys (λάβρυς in Greek, lábrys) is the term for a symmetrical doubleheaded axe originally from Crete in Greece, one of the oldest symbols of Greek civilization; to the Romans, it was known as a bipenn …
