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61Hagia Photia — (also Ayia Photia, Agia Photia) is an archaeological site of an ancient Minoan building on Crete.ArchaeologyThe building at Hagia Photia has 37 rooms which open onto a central court, but do not necessarily connect to adjoining rooms. It was… …
62Phaistos Disc decipherment claims — There are a large number of claims of decipherment of the Phaistos Disc.The claims may be categorized into linguistic decipherments, identifying the language of the inscription, and non linguistic decipherments. A purely ideographical reading is… …
63Mount Juktas — A mountain in north central Crete, Mount Juktas (also spelled Iuktas, Iouktas, and a variety of others due to irregular transliteration from Greek) was an important religious site for the Minoan Civilization.[1] Located a few kilometers from the… …
64Knossos — Knossian, adj. /nos euhs/, n. a ruined city on N central Crete; capital of the ancient Minoan civilization. Also, Cnossus, Gnossus. * * * Ancient royal city, Crete. It was King Minos s capital and the centre of the Minoan civilization. Settled by …
65Aegean civilizations — History of Greece This article is part of a series …
66Mycenae — This article is about the ancient Greek city. For the hamlet in New York, see Mycenae, New York. Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns * UNESCO World Heritage Site …
67Britomartis — For the butterfly genus, see Britomartis (butterfly). Dicte redirects here. For the fairy longhorn moth genus, see Dicte (moth). Britomartis (Βριτόμαρτις), was the Minoan goddess of mountains and hunting. She is among the Minoan goddess …
68Ancient art — Arts of the ancient world refers to the many types of art that were in the cultures of ancient societies, such as those of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and RomeArtsSee ancient music, etc.AfricaMoroccoThe earliest figurine the… …
69Eteocretan language — Eteocretan Spoken in Crete Extinct beginning of 1st millennium BC, Language family unclassified …
70Bull-leaping — (also , from Greek gr. ταυροκαθάψια [The name of a ritual bull fight held on occasion of a festival in Thessaly (scholion to Pindar, Pythian Odes 2.78), at Smyrna (CIG 3212) and at Sinope (CIG 4157).] ) is a motif of Middle Bronze Age figurative… …
