The well-preserved remains of the ancient Minoan town of Gournia in eastern Crete still stand after ... Phaistos, and Malia, we have huge palace urban settlements, cities really, but Gournia ...

Perhaps the inspiration for Atlantis, Minoan civilization born on the island of Crete spread throughout the Mediterranean before it mysteriously collapsed. Many myths and legends of Crete center ...

When Picasso in the 1920s and 30s wanted to explore the bestial elements that were shaping European politics, he turned instinctively to the palace of Minoan Crete, to that encounter between man ...