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The Ancient Cretans: A Legacy of Minoan Culture and Art
An overview of Bronze Age Crete: the palaces, frescoes, pottery and sea trade of the Minoans, why the name is modern, and the likely causes of their decline.
Greece, Rome and Europe
Aegean Bronze Age
Minoans, Mycenaeans and Troy before classical Greece.
The Ancient City of Akrotiri: A City of Minoan Wonder
Akrotiri on Thera, the Bronze Age town on Santorini buried by volcanic ash: its multi-storey houses, wall paintings, and the debated date of the eruption.
The Ancient City of Troy: A Historical Enigma
The Hisarlik excavations explained: the many layers of Troy, the digs from Schliemann to the present, and what archaeology can and cannot say about a Trojan War.
The Ancient Civilization of the Cretans: A Culture of Minotaurs and Labyrinths
The Minotaur and Labyrinth of Greek myth compared with what Arthur Evans's excavations at Knossos actually revealed about Bronze Age Crete and its bull imagery.
The Ancient Civilization of the Mycenaeans: A Culture of Heroes and Legends
Mycenaean palaces, citadels, Linear B tablets and shaft graves explained, along with the debated collapse of the Greek Bronze Age world around 1200 BCE.
The Forgotten Civilization of the Cretans
How the palaces of Knossos, Phaistos and Malia worked as centres of storage, craft and ritual, and what Cretan palace society tells us about Bronze Age Crete.
The Forgotten Civilization of the Cretans: A New Discovery
A careful look at recent Cretan finds: ancient DNA studies, better dating of the Thera eruption and ongoing excavations that refine, rather than overturn, Minoan history.
The Forgotten History of the Ancient Cretan Civilization
Crete's Bronze Age story told through its scripts: Cretan hieroglyphs, the undeciphered Linear A script, Linear B, and what the palace collapses leave unknown.
The Lost City of Troy: A Legendary Archaeological Find
Schliemann at Troy: the 1870s digs at Hisarlik, Wilhelm Dorpfeld's later corrections, the layers of Troy VI and VIIa, and the lasting damage done to the site.
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