The Minoan palace at Knossos.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

History's Mysteries' take is that what we call Minoan civilization may have actually been Atlantean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was Goliath an Atlantean?] Reference

And he believed, what we now know to be the fact, that even before the Homeric there had been a wonderful island-culture, what we call the Minoan, flourishing before the Homeric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progress and History] Reference

This earliest civilization in Crete is called Minoan after the legendary King Minos of Knossos.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. The Minoan Civilization] Reference

How do these early "Minoan" forgeries fit into the history of forgery in the broader sense?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talking About Fakes] Reference

Lapatin shows that almost all of these, as well as a substantial number of other "Minoan" objects, are certain forgeries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery] Reference

The "Minoan" forgeries differ from these in that they sold for a lot of money and helped to shape our view of a newly discovered ancient civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talking About Fakes] Reference

At least 14 unprovenienced "Minoan" goddesses made their way into museums and private collections, and many were subsequently extolled as masterpieces of ancient art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snake Goddesses, Fake Goddesses] Reference

Rethinking Minoan Archaeology, "in Labyrinth Revisited: Rethinking" Minoan "Archaeology (Oxbow, 2002), p. 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery] Reference

Greece owes to the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

How forgers on Crete met the demand for Minoan antiquities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snake Goddesses, Fake Goddesses] Reference

We have had perhaps three in Europe: the Minoan in the Aegean Islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

Its derivations from the Minoan and Mycenaean columns seems most improbable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

The Cretan civilization swept over South Greece in the first Late Minoan period.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

As for the ruins, don't miss Knossos, the ancient Minoan palace just outside Heraklion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off the Beaten Track: Crete] Reference

He is mainly interested in the social and religious reconstitution of Minoan civilization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet the Team « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference

We believe, based on the ceramic typologies, that also Zominthos is dated in Late Minoan I phase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture 181 « Field Notes 2009: Weeks 3 & 4 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference

Cretan influence strong in Middle Minoan completely drowned local efforts in first Late Minoan days.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

A newly discovered Minoan palace has yielded the oldest well-dated fresco fragment ever found in Crete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cretan Minoan Finds] Reference

They looked at many different types of ancient images including Mycenaean, Etruscan, and Minoan examples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey, Is That Statue in Maryann's House from the Brooklyn Museum?] Reference

It is difficult not to believe that the Minoan element, entering into the mosaic of peoples that we call the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

However, this is not the part of Minoan (pre) history or mythology that served as a catalyst for this particular post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Pattakos: The Lost Feminine] Reference

The sherds collected from the fallen walls have been dated not only to the Minoan period, but to later periods as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picture 63 « Field Notes 2005 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference

Finally, we live literally on top of several breathtaking yet radically different past cultures, from Minoan to Byzantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Andreadis Unibrow Theory of Art] Reference

The portraitures follow the Egyptian precedent and for the first time the mysterious Minoan and Mycenean people rise before us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

The whole picture of the civilization, including home life, dress, religious worship, and architecture, is Minoan and Mycenean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

One might say the same for Pasternak's prose, which skips around from DNA to Minoan civilization to GM crops in search of evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Britain: God Save The President] Reference

From Minoan to Byzantine times the variety, beauty, and colour of fish made a deep impression on Greek minds as reflected in their art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

And although only his wife knows for sure, it is rumored that, in the right light, he's the spitting image of the Minoan snake goddess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Archaeological Look-Alike Contest] Reference

Some 3,600 years ago, that's what happened to the Minoan island of Thera when a giant volcano blew its lid right through that dot in the Aegean Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Schulman: Santorini: A Blast From the Past] Reference

Not that these invaders didn't adopt many of the ways and skills of the more ancient cultures, as the Achaeans, for example, adopted much of the Minoan culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jean Houston: Moving Beyond the Pathology of History: Why We Need a Shift in Human Consciousness] Reference

The arrangements of the palaces and courts as narrated in the epics were counterparts of the Minoan and Mycenean palaces and had long since passed out of existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

One might say the same for Pasternak's prose, as wide-ranging as the human species itself, skipping from DNA to Minoan civilization to GM crops in search of evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homo Sapiens: A New Answer To An Old 'Quest'-Ion] Reference

When we realize the great indebtedness of the succeeding classical culture of Greece to its Minoan predecessor the full significance of this conclusion will be understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference