Minoan, a venture-backed startup pursuing precisely this vision, calls it “native retail.” The company says it has already assembled a “network” of nearly 10,000 venues (mostly short-term ...

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 ...

The island of Santorini, 70 miles north of Crete, was home to the wealthy Minoan seaport of Akrotiri, a place where the wall paintings discovered portray their landscape with happy animals and ...

Archaeologists and scientists connected the violent eruption of the Santorini volcano with the end of the flourishing Minoan ...

The structure belonged to the Minoan civilization and was mainly used between 2000 and 1700 B.C.E., around the same time that Crete’s monumental palaces at Knossos and Phaistos were built ...

It is not often that a museum plays a leading role in one of its own shows, but that is the case with Oxford’s Ashmolean: for its new exhibition of Minoan archaeology and artefacts the museum ...

We have made an important contribution to this with our study of the Minoan eruption." The Minoans were the earliest advanced civilization in Europe. The eruption named after them took place about ...

No other Minoan structures like it have been found, according to archaeologist and Culture Minister Lina Mendoni. The entire structure covers about 19,000 square feet, and consists of eight ...