For a look at a Greek art exhibition in the Royal Academy of ... In the labyrinthine palace at Knossos was a bull ring where Minoan youths and maidens displayed their superiority to the sacred ...

The Bull in Human History, Art, and Sports will explore the importance of the bull ... The first acknowledged "sport" with bulls is depicted in the acrobatic performances of youthful Minoan men and ...

The ancient tomb contained bodies of two Minoan Bronze Age men. One of two skeletons from an ancient Minoan tomb discovered in Crete. Courtesy of the Greek Ministry of Culture. Sarah Cascone ...

and that images of weapons are common in Minoan art. The sports of boxing, hunting, archery, and bull-leaping kept men battle-ready. “Ideologies of war are shown to have permeated religion ...

Moak, a Rocky Mountain College professor of art and art history ... the figure was obviously that of an important deity in the Minoan civilization, Moak said. Initially, the figure was considered ...

The art in the museum, so full of joy and curiosity, suggests Minoan society was far more advanced ... they bequeathed us show that its women were men’s equal. The Messara museum lets us see ...

It is not often that a museum plays a leading role in one of its own shows, but that is the case with Oxford’s Ashmolean: for its new exhibition of Minoan archaeology and artefacts the museum ...

Workers installing a radar system ahead of an airport construction project in the town of Kastelli in Crete stumbled on a large architectural monument, one unique for Minoan archaeology.

The opening ceremony of a special exhibition on Minoan civilization in Greece was held on Monday at the Palace Museum in Beijing. The exhibition, named "Daedalus: Legends of Crete," brings ...

Based on depictions in Minoan art, Minoan culture is often characterized as a matrilinear society centered on goddess worship.