Minoan food was an early Mediterranean diet built on bread, olive oil, pulses, fruit, dairy and seafood, eaten by the Bronze Age people of Crete. This balanced, plant-led diet sustained a sophisticated palace society for centuries. Plan tickets and tours through My Greece Tours. The same surplus that fed daily meals also stocked the storerooms … Read more
Minoan ships were the wooden oared and single-sail vessels of Bronze Age Crete, the vehicles of a civilisation whose entire power rested on the sea rather than on armies or walls. Plan tickets and tours through My Greece Tours. The same maritime wealth that built the unfortified Palace of Knossos flowed in along the keels … Read more
The collapse of Minoan civilisation was the gradual decline and end of Bronze Age Crete’s palace-based society, driven by a combination of natural disaster, internal weakening and eventual foreign takeover rather than any single event. Plan tickets and tours through My Greece Tours. This wider story centres on the great administrative seat at the Palace … Read more