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Crete’s Malia Minoan Palace Flooded by Recent Torrential Rains

2020-11-16 by Argophilia Travel News

Malia Palace

The recent torrential rains that damaged much of Crete flooded the ancient workshops excavated at the Minoan Palace at Malia.

Tags: Crete antiquity, Crete UNESCO, Lina Mendoni, Malia floods, Malia Minoan Palace, Malia Palace, Minoan palaces, Minoans

Archaeologists Peter Eeckhout and Jan Driessen Explore Minoan Secrets

2020-08-12 by Phil Butler

Jan Driessen

An ARTE documentary brings forward new methods for solving the riddles left by the mysterious Minoans

Tags: ARTE, Dr. Jan Driessen, European Cultural Channel, Jan Driessen, Knossos, Malia Palace, Palace at Knossos, Phaistos Palace, Sissi Archaeological Project

Dec. 9th in Athens: ‘In the Shadow of the Minotaur’ With Dr. Jan Driessen

2019-11-29 by Phil Butler

Sissi archaeologists

Coming December 9th to the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Dr. Jan Driessen with a lecture on the archaeological finds at Sissi, Crete.

Tags: 2019-2020 Circle of Archaeological Lecture, archaeological discovery, archaeological finds, archaeology, In the Shadow of the Minotaur, Lasithi, lecture series, Malia Palace, Sissi Archaeological Project, Sissi archaeology

King Sarpedon and Rumors of Empires Lost and Won

2019-11-23 by Phil Butler

Sea People

Scholars unveil more and more to help us understand antiquity. But our legacy remains in the ethereal playground of King Sarpedon.

Tags: Akhenaten, archaeology, Cherethites, Crete legends, Eteocretans, Idaea, J. D. S. Pendlebury, Karfi, Knossos, Kuretes, Lukka, Lycia, Lycians, Malia, Malia Palace, Minoans, Minos, Mt. Ida, Mycenae, Mycenean, Pindar, Rhadamanthus, Sarpedon, Sea People, Teucer, Troy

Europe’s Bureaucrats: Making the Minoans a Footnote of History

2019-05-09 by Phil Butler

Bull Dance

Today, the fate of some of the world’s most treasured Minoan landmarks is still mired in a European bureaucratic bog.

Tags: Constantina Benissi, crete, Crete monuments, cultural landmarks, Dr. Kostis S. Christakis, elitism, Greece culture, Greek sites, Knossos, Kydonia, Malia, Malia Palace, Meritocracy, Ministry of Culture of Greece, Minoan Civilization, Minoans, Nikos Igoumenidi, Phaestos, Phaistos, Sir Arthur Evans, UNESCO, Zakros, Zominthos

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