[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

Reprised, excerpted, from a post in another topic, checked these gallery links an hour ago:

Here are some of Bietak's Minoan finds, from "Minoan Wall-Paintings unearthed at Ancient Avaris":

• Gallery 1
• Gallery 2
• Gallery 3

Minoan art was widely popular during the heyday of that civilization. Here's a formerly prosperous site with a history of occupation stretching from the Middle Kingdom, through the Hyksos / 2nd IP, into the New Kingdom.

Helmi, Ezbet

Formerly called Tell el-Qirqafa. Amsterdam University survey of 1984 noted the presence of a quartzite block in the village, measuring 100 x (75+) x 17cm, pierced by a central square shaft. This site was probably the location of the Djadu of the 12th dynasty, found by Labib Habachi. Now the site is the focus of a major excavation by the Austrian Institute, working under cultivated fields some 800 metres west of their excavations at Tell ed-Daba. Major discoveries include Minoan wall paintings, an Eighteenth Dynasty palace, a Hyksos palace and water-supply system.

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[Oztrich Boy]

“Dey tuk er jeobs!”

[gleeaikin]

Some years ago after looking at the art produced at the montheist pharoah Iknaton’s new city, I said to myself, “that has the free and natural feel of Minoan art.”

I then thought that perhaps artists from the collapsing Minoan civilization might have been hired by Iknaton who appreciated their more natural style of representation.

[wildbill]

How’s this for a theory? The artists may have been forced to leave the Aegean because of the eruption of Thera (Santorini)

The dates are relatively close. “ Despite this evidence, the exact date of the eruption has been difficult to determine. Current estimates based on radiocarbon dating indicate that the eruption occurred between 1627 BCE and 1600 BCE.[19] However, this range of dates conflicts with the previous estimate—based on archaeological studies utilizing conventional Egyptian chronology—of about a century later.[19][20][21]”

The eruption was a huge event in the Aegean. Who knows how long its effects may have altered the opportunities for artists in the Minoan culture througout the Aegean.

[colorado tanker]

My interest in archeology was definitely piqued when as an adolescent I saw pictures of bare-breasted Minoan babes leaping on bulls.

[JoeProBono]