A Bronze Age palatial culture centered on Crete that dominated Aegean trade and art before its mysterious collapse around 1100 BCE.
Declined and was progressively supplanted by Mycenaean Greek culture from around 1450 BCE, when most Minoan palaces and settlements were destroyed or abandoned; the last distinctly Minoan communities on Crete disappeared by approximately 1100 BCE as the wider Late Bronze Age collapse swept the Aegean.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Minoan Civilization — the shape you scrub through changes in 3000 BC · 1925 BC · 1700 BC · 1470 BC · 1200 BC.
A current, authoritative synthesis of Minoan Crete's archaeology, art and society by a leading specialist.
Full-length reconstruction of Minoan palatial society, economy and religion on Crete — polity-specific complement to the existing 'Minoans (Peoples of the Past)'.
The standard accessible survey of the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Bronze Age Aegean for the general reader.
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