Minoan Burial Customs

Minoan Burial Customs

Minoan burial customs were the funerary practices of Bronze Age Crete, characterised by communal tombs that families and communities reused across many generations and by burials in painted clay coffins called larnakes. These customs reveal how the Minoans honoured the dead and imagined the afterlife. Plan tickets and tours through My Greece Tours. The same … Read more

Minoan Frescoes

Minoan Frescoes

Minoan frescoes are the vivid wall paintings produced by the Bronze Age civilisation of Crete, applied in true buon fresco onto wet lime plaster and finished with bright mineral pigments. They show bull-leaping, sea creatures, processions and elegant figures from a palace world. Plan tickets and tours through My Greece Tours. These paintings decorated the … Read more