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In this article we present a summary on the discovery of the oldest (5.7 millions of years ago) hominin footprint found on Earth so far. Continue reading “The oldest (5.7 Ma) human (hominin) footprint discovered in Crete, Greece”
An important archaeological excavation has just started at the “Koupos” site, by Krousona, not far from Herakleion (Crete). The site has been known since the early 20th century for the existence of an ancient city whose name remains unknown. Continue reading “An ancient city (1200-100 BC) comes to light at Krousona”
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by Jeffery R. Hughey, Peristera Paschou, Petros Drineas, Donald Mastropaolo, Dimitra M. Lotakis, Patrick A. Navas, Manolis Michalodimitrakis, John A. Stamatoyannopoulos & George Stamatoyannopoulos. Continue reading “A European population in Minoan Bronze Age Crete”
In Aulis, it was perhaps a fair wind that had to be secured by Iphigenia’s sacrifice, but in ancient Kydonia, on the Kasteli hill of Chania in Crete, it was an earthquake and the chthonic deities that, according to the customs and “logic” of the time, needed to be placated by the ancient Kydonians resorting to human sacrifice(s)… Continue reading “Ritual human sacrifice in the Mycenaean palace of Kydonia?”
Recent fieldwork at the ancient city of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete finds that during the early Iron Age (1100 to 600 BC), the city was rich in imports and was nearly three times larger than what was believed from earlier excavations. Continue reading “Recent (2016) finds reveal the importance of Knossos”
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