The Minoan civilization was very developed.

米诺斯文明非常发达。

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的米诺斯时期人造品相似的艺术构成。

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：大陆上的希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。

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，并对定居岛上的海洋文明米诺斯王国造成致命打击。

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.

克里特的这尊铜小雕像是件很好的证物，让我们了解铜是当时整个地中海东部地区需求巨大的重要商品。

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

埃文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。

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

希腊文化部最近表示，这座建筑与克里特岛古代米诺斯文明中的任何其他建筑都不同。

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文明集合的一个亮点。

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

克里特岛的米诺斯文明以其复杂的宫殿、丰富多彩的艺术和神秘的文字系统而闻名。

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 “线形文字 B” 的文本代表了米诺斯文明的语言，而全世界的学者则众说纷纭。

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，文特里斯环环相扣地破译了线形文字 B，每个词都愈发清晰地表明线形文字 B并不是米诺斯语，而是希腊语。

From Greece: Archaeologists uncovered gold, jewels and beads in a large building on the now uninhabited Minoan island of Chrysi, a location that about 3,500 years ago was devoted to making purple dye from sea snails called Murex.

来自希腊：考古学家在一个现已无人居住的米诺安岛屿克里西岛上的一座大型建筑中发现了金子、珠宝和珠子。大约在3500年前，这个地点专门用于从一种名为紫贻贝的海螺中提取紫色染料。

Evans called the culture Minoan on account of the culture's obsession with the bull, and due to the maze-like architecture of the excavated royal palace, which Evans referred to as the Labyrinth.

埃文斯将这种文化称为米诺安文化， 是因为该文化对公牛的痴迷，以及由于挖掘出的王宫建筑如同迷宫一般，埃文斯将其称为迷宫。

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

赫拉克利翁的历史可追溯至远古时期，其根源可回溯至公元前约2000年繁荣一时的米诺斯文明。

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

米诺安文化制作蜂蜜酒， 并将其归功于他们的母神波特尼亚，她的女祭司被称为梅利莎， 意为蜜蜂。

For the same reason, we can be sure that the Linear B syllabary of Mycenaean Greece had been adapted by around 1400 B.C.from the Linear A syllabary of Minoan Crete.

出于同样的原因，我们可以肯定，希腊迈锡尼的线性 B 音表在公元前 1400 年左右就已经从克里特岛米诺斯的线性 A 音表改编而来。

The bull cult was at the centre of Minoan culture.

公牛崇拜是米诺斯文化的核心。

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

这里是米诺斯文明的中心，一个从公元前约2000年至1450年间繁荣昌盛的复杂而神秘的社会。

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

在岛屿帝国中，为什么文字出现在米诺斯克里特岛而不是波利尼西亚汤加？

While the exact reasons for the collapse of the Minoan civilization remain a subject of debate, the prevailing theory suggests that the eruption of the Thera volcano on Santorini around 1600 BC, was the catalyst for the civilization's decline.

尽管米诺斯文明衰落的确切原因仍存争议，但主流理论认为， 公元前1600年左右圣托里尼岛上的锡拉火山喷发，是导致该文明衰退的直接诱因。