They think it was a merchant ship loaded with blocks of copper, that it sunk in the storm while traveling to the island of Crete or possibly somewhere in Aegean Sea.
In the pre-dynastic period of Egypt and the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete, eggs were associated with death and rebirth, as well as with kingship.
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.
但线形文字 B 属于腊语,而非米诺斯语发现揭示了事实恰恰相反:大陆上的腊人入侵了克里特岛,并借用了米诺斯文字作为自己的语言。
In this story, a monster called the Minotaur lived in a labyrinth on the island of Crete.From time to time, people were sent inside the labyrinth as sacrifices.
The extreme heatwave across southern Europe is continuing to intensify wildfires and have now spread to the coast of Croatia and the Greek island of Crete, where they've caused widespread destruction.
They also developed extensive trade networks far and wide with Cyprus, Rhodes, the Cyclades, mainland Greece, Crete, the Libyan coast, Egypt and North Africa, Spain, Sicily, Italy, Britain and beyond.
And it also asserts the enduring fascination of mythical Crete as the perpetual site where we confront the most disturbing links between man and beast in ourselves.