The Minoan civilization was very developed.

米诺斯明非常发达。

They're very much like the iconography that you find in Minoan Crete.

它们拥有和你在克里特岛上发现米诺斯时期人造品相似艺术构成。

It's now one of the highlights of the British Museum's Minoan collection.

它现在是大英博物馆克里特明集合一个亮点。

Crete's Minoan civilization is famous for its complex palaces, colorful art, and mysterious writing system.

克里特岛米诺斯明以复杂宫殿、丰富多彩艺术和神字系统而闻名。

Greece's Culture Ministry said recently that the structure is unlike any other from Crete's ancient Minoan civilization.

希腊部最近表示，这座建筑与克里特岛古代米诺斯明中任何他建筑都不同。

The bull cult was at the centre of Minoan culture.

公牛崇拜是米诺斯核心。

Among island empires, why did writing arise in Minoan Crete but not in Polynesian Tonga?

在岛屿帝国中，为什么字出现在米诺斯克里特岛而不是波利尼西亚汤加？

The Minoan culture produced mead and credited it to their mother goddess Potnia, whose priestesses were named Melissa meaning bee.

米诺安制作蜂蜜酒， 并功于他们母神波特尼亚，她女祭司被称为梅利莎， 意为蜜蜂。

He thought the script, dubbed Linear B, represented the Minoan language, and scholars all over the world came up with their own theories.

他猜想这种被称作 “线形字 B” 本代表了米诺斯明语言，而全世界学者则众说纷纭。

Evans's interpretations of these engravings eventually led him to find the Minoan palace at Knossos (Knos6s) , on the island of Crete, in 1900.

埃斯对这些雕刻进行解读，最终于 1900 年在克里特岛克诺索斯遗址找到了米斯诺王宫。

In Minoan Crete, it was considered a holy mountain, and several myths were closely associated with it.

在米诺斯克里特， 伊达山被视为圣山，与之紧密相连还有多个神话传说。

It was the heart of the Minoan civilization, a sophisticated and enigmatic society that flourished from around 2,000 to 1450 BC.

这里是米诺斯明中心，一个从公元前约2000年至1450年间繁荣昌盛复杂而神社会。

In a domino effect, Ventris unraveled Linear B, with each word revealing more clearly that the language of Linear B was not Minoan, but Greek.

如多米诺骨牌一般，特里斯环环相扣地破译了线形字 B，每个词都愈发清晰地表明线形字 B并不是米诺斯语，而是希腊语。

The history of Heraklion dates back to ancient times, with its roots tracing back to the Minoan civilization that thrived around 2,000 BC.

赫拉克利翁历史可追溯至远古时期，根源可回溯至公元前约2000年繁荣一时米诺斯明。

The island of Crete was at the heart of the Minoan civilization that dominated the Aegean and Mediterranean world in the second millennium BCE.

克里特岛是米诺斯明中心，该明在公元前第二个千年主宰了爱琴海和地中海世界。

The small bronze statuette from Minoan Crete, unique as it is, is also a very good indicator of this key commodity, bronze, that was sought after throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

克里特这尊青铜小雕像是件很好证物，让我们了解青铜是当时整个地中海东部地区需求巨大重要商品。

Notably, Matala is close to Phaestus, the Minoan civilization's second-largest palace, having served as its port in the past and later for Gortyn during Roman times.

值得注意是， 马塔拉靠近克里特岛第二大宫殿——费斯托斯，这里曾是米诺斯明港口，后来在罗马时期又成为戈尔廷港口。

But the discovery that Linear B represented Greek, and not Minoan, showed that the opposite had happened: mainland Greeks invaded Crete and adopted the Minoan script for their own language.

但线形字 B 属于希腊语，而非米诺斯语这一发现揭示了事实恰恰相反：大陆上希腊人入侵了克里特岛，并借用了米诺斯字作为自己语言。

The explosion was so powerful that it wrecked Santorini's ancient city of Akrotiri and dealt a fatal blow to the seafaring Minoan civilization, which had settled on the island at the time.

这场爆炸威力巨大，以至于摧毁了圣托里尼古城阿克罗蒂里，并对定居岛上海洋明米诺斯王国造成致命打击。

This disaster likely brought about the end of the Minoan civilization, and some scholars believe that the story of Atlantis represented a sort of folk memory of these events.

这场灾难很可能导致了米诺斯明终结，一些学者认为， 关于亚特兰蒂斯故事代表了人们对这些事件一种民间记忆。