Minoan Trade RoutesMinoan influence inthe Bronze ... stylized images of sparring boxers, climbing monkeys, swimming dolphins, and flying birds. The quality of the paintings uncovered at Akrotiri ...

"The representation of primates in Minoan contexts confirms the early exchange of iconography and knowledge of monkeys among Aegean islanders, and substantiates their interaction with human ...

A provocative new theory identifies monkeys frolicking in a 2nd millennium BCE Minoan mural in Santorini, which were long thought to be African, as South Asian – grey langurs from the Harappan ...

a Minoan settlement on Thera (modern-day Santorini) buried by volcanic ash around 1600 B.C., have uncovered evidence that Bronze Age Greek artists knew of—and may have even seen—monkeys whose ...

Akrotiri was a settlement of the Minoan civilisation in Bronze Age Greece that was buried by ash from a volcanic eruption in around 1600 BC. Many of the paintings show monkeys, yet there were no ...

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

Because of the fine materials used in making the statue, including ivory from four hippopotamus tusks and 24-karat gold, the figure was obviously that of an important deity in the Minoan ...

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 ...