When: 2000 - 1600 B.C.
Where: Island of Crete
What: A Bronze Age civilization that was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century by Sir Arthur Evans.
- They worshipped the bull (most powerful of all deities)
- They were a friendly people
- They left frescos on the walls
- Their architecture was the post and lintel
- Language: Linear A - comes from the Phaistos or Phaestos Disc
Fresco: "Torreador"
Popular bull fighter fresco
Phaistos/Phaestos Disc
Linear A Language
241 figures on disc
found in 1908
has not been translated yet
