The Stream of Time

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• The Stream of Time: The Minoans: Frescoes

  In Minoan society everything was painted on: walls, floors, toys, pottery, figurines, columns, and even clothing, but sadly only 5-10% of a...

• The Stream of Time: The Mycenaeans: Frescoes

  As the Mycenaean palace hierarchy was blossoming (beginning around 1,400 BCE) Mycenaean artists were called in to paint elaborate scenes in...

• The Stream of Time: The Minoans: The Old Temple Period

  The West Porch with the west facade behind it, at Knossos As the brief Sumerian renaissance faltered and its culture was replaced ...

• The Stream of Time: The Minoans: Craftsmanship

  By the EM period (3,000-2,000 BCE) the production of certain material activities had become separated from the general population, and the...

• The Stream of Time: The Minoans: Paleolithic and Neolithic Crete

  Here in the present we do not have the luxury of future archeological discoveries. We can only collect and synthesize what we know, and com...

• The Stream of Time: The Minoans: International Trade, Colonies, and Shipping

  “The evidence preserved to us by the passage of time constitutes but a small fraction of that which must have once existed. Each imported v...