Archaeological evidence shows Minoans used violence and were prepared for war

Tornos News ^ | Wednesday, 06 March 2019 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

It is hard to explain why such a thing occurred. As well as why in Minoan culture there is no representation of or reference to a lord. "In Minoan culture we have no representation of a lord, neither has any name come down to us except for that of Minos and perhaps Radamanthes, about whom we do not have much information. Moreover, Homeric Idomeneas was a Mycenaean king of Crete", noted Mrs Tsipopoulou having already stressed the mystery of Minoan culture which continuously thickens, despite new finds and fresh interpretations. Here is an interesting piece of information from the archaeologist herself: "For those who wonder about the famous Prince with the lilies from Knossos, I am afraid I shall have to disappoint them, because this fresco has been made up of two or three different images; the body belongs to a boxer while the head is that of a sphinx, according to a study of the fragments published by Wolf Dietrich Niemeyer".

However, walls did exist in Minoan Crete, like those discovered during systematic excavations conducted by Mrs Tsipopoulou in the 1980s in the Bay of Siteia, specifically in Aghia Fotia and mainly in Petras. A Minoan palace was discovered there, part of an urban settlement as well as a un plundered elite cemetery which was in use for approximately 1.000 years. In Aghia Fotia, the wall that surrounds the, so far, only rectangular building, dates with the latter from around 2100-2000 B.C...

[SunkenCiv]

They were not the "flower children" of Ancient Greece, as the impressive, "cyclopian" protopalatial wall of Petras, in Siteia with surviving height considerably over 2m indicates [Tornos News]

[SunkenCiv]

• Fortifications on Gournia Debunk Myth of Peaceful Minoan Society [2010]

[SunkenCiv]

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[JonPreston]

The link in your tag line is broken.

[Mount Athos]

i love the stuff you post here

[Adder]

Interesting!

I never knew much about them as I am always sidetracked by the paintings of their women’s low cut clothes....

[Uncle Miltie]

“That’ll put your eye out!”

[Phillyred]

Indigenous peoples do the darndest things.

[Red Badger]

Archaeological evidence shows Minoans used violence and were prepared for war,

Aren't they the people who eventually migrated to what is now southern Israel and became the Philistines?....................

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, good to know, that was for another FReeper.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s one of the OT versions, meanwhile:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3732738/posts?page=5#5

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[gleeaikin]

Thank you for another great data dump. When do you ever sleep? ;-)

[gleeaikin]

I copied the tag line starting with the https into Google and got a number of articles. The first one was for Mel Gibson, then starting about 6 articles down were a number of articles you had posted at FR that included your entire tag line. There did not seem to be any specific link to a go fund me site.

[gleeaikin]

It seems there is also a John Preston to whom I mistakenly sent my message. Here below for Jon is:

I copied the tag line starting with the https into Google and got a number of articles. The first one was for Mel Gibson, then starting about 6 articles down were a number of articles you (Sunken Civ) had posted at FR that included your entire tag line. There did not seem to be any specific link to a go fund me site.

[JonPreston]

SunkenCiv addressed my comment (above). That said, I love SunkenCiv’s articles. Fascinating stuff!

[nicollo]

Wait, what? You mean these ancient world hippies weren’t all beads and flowers, after all?

And I thought the Minotaur was just an ancient apparition of Jerry Garcia and the labyrinth just a bad trip...

[SunkenCiv]

Sleep? ;^)

[SunkenCiv]

It's probably time to go back to my old tagline, uh, whatever it was.

[SunkenCiv]

They do, and so too the outdigenous peoples.