1/ Ancient Greek texts refer to a mythical king of Crete with divine origins and extraordinary abilities, Minos. Thucydides reports that Minos was the most ancient king of Crete, who dominated the entire Aegean with a powerful fleet (Minoan Thalassocracy). #Minoans

1/ In 1903, during his excavations at Knossos, and specifically in a palatial area to the south of the Throne Room, Arthur Evans brought to light two elaborate Minoan figurines of a clearly ceremonial nature. He named the site of the figurines' discovery "Temple Repositories".
#Minoans

[PART TWO] CHG/IRF-related ancestry. From the plateaus of the Caucasus and NW Zagros to the Aegean Archipelago.
#Caucasus #Aegean #Dimini

[PART ONE] Caucasus Hunter-Gether / Iran Neolithic Farmer lineage: When, where and through what processes did its formation take place.
#Caucasus #Zagros #CHG_IRF

A new archaeogenetic research with new genetic samples from the Aegean Bronze Age.
Some observations regarding the research findings.
#Proto_Greeks #Mycenaeans

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1/ In 1903, the Italian archaeologist Roberto Paribeni discovered inside an elite chamber tomb (Tomb 4) in the area of the royal Villa of Hagia Triada, Crete, one of the most important artifacts of Aegean art: the Hagia Triada sarcophagus. It is dated to around 1400 BC.
#Minoans #Myceneans

1️⃣ "Son of Laertes-mastermind-what a fine, faithful wife you won! What good sense resided in your Penelope - how well Ikarios' daughter remembered you, Odysseus, the man she married! The fame of her great virtue will never die. The immortal gods will lift a song for all mankind, 👉

1/ The Pelasgians constitute one of the greatest chimeras of the modern scientific community, as the ancient Greek sources referring to this mysterious people hover on the borders of myth and a faded historical memory, each time motivated by various motives.
#Pelasgians

Woman is a source of life, love and wisdom.
#StopViolenceAgainstWomen

Achilles: An example of the linguistic continuity of Hellenism through naming.
From the textual sources of Linear B to the Christian saints of late antiquity.
#Achilles #LinearB #Hellenism

1/ Linguistic and archaeogenetic studies have shown that the Mycenaeans were the oldest ancestors of modern Greeks. However, by reading the Mycenaean texts we discover impressive evidence regarding the continuity of Hellenism from the Late Bronze Age to the present day.
#Mycenaeans

Phastos disc: Part Two.
A genius artifact with clear Minoan origins.
#Phsistos_disc
#Minoans #Aegean_Scripts
#Cretan_Hieroglyphs
#LinearA #LinearB

Phastos disc: Part One.
A magical journey to the most controversial point in Aegean prehistoric scripts.
#Phsistos_disc
#Minoans #Aegean_Scripts
#Cretan_Hieroglyphs
#LinearA #LinearB

1/ Attempting to determine who the Mycenaeans were, we could say that they were a Greek tribe that formed in central and southern Greece through the mixing of Proto-Greek groups, which descended from their northern cradle to the south, and a strong local Pre-Greek population.