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Tagsminoan
10 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇷 Greece · Settlement
Minoan Late Minoan IA (1627–1500 BCE collapse) recycled in Plato 359 BCE · Minoan / Cycladic
Thera's 1600 BCE Minoan eruption as kernel for Plato's Atlantis — Marinatos 1939 Minoan-Thalassocracy translation.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (1780–1100 BCE) · Egyptian / Hyksos Canaanite / Minoan / Ramesside
Hyksos capital 1650 BCE — Pelusiac harbour 500x300 m for 300 ships with Minoan bull-leaping fresco palace, silted 4 m.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Minoan Protopalatial to Neopalatial (c. 1900 – 1450 BCE) · Minoan Palatial (Cretan)
Minoan slipway harbour – two rock-cut slipways at –1 m and boulder mole 25 m at –1.5 m in Kymassa bay.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Minoan to Byzantine (c. 2000 BCE – 6th c. CE) · Minoan / Mycenaean / Greek
Knossos' Minoan harbour at Amnisos — villa frescoes and 70 m quay now –1 to –3 m in surf below Eileithyia cave.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Minoan 1900–1450 BCE · Minoan
Third Minoan palace with mysterious kernos stones for ritual offerings.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Minoan Neopalatial 1700–1450 BCE, origin 1900 BCE Old Palace · Minoan civilization
Minoan palatial maze of 1300 rooms - Labyrinth origin and Europe's first advanced palace.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Minoan 1900–1400 BCE, peak Neopalatial · Minoan
Minoan hilltop palace where undeciphered Phaistos Disc was found in 1908.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Minoan · Minoan
Knossos (Palace of Minos) in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Minoan ancient city attributed to Minoan culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Minoan · Minoan
Phaistos (Festòs) in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Minoan ancient city attributed to Minoan culture. Settlement complex with stratified occupation, demonstrating urban planning and craft production.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Middle to Late Minoan (LM IA) · Cycladic / Minoan
Minoan Cycladic town buried under pumice by Theran eruption c.1620–1530 BCE (S: 1600 BCE), preserving 3-storey buildings, drainage, vivid frescoes (Spring, Ship Procession) comparable to Pompeii.
