History of Crete
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The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe.
The Bull-Leaping Fresco from Knossos showing bull-leaping, c. 1450 BC; probably, the dark skinned figure is a man and the two light skinned figures are women
Goddess clay figurine. Neolithic, 5300–3000 BC. Pano Chorio, Ierapetra region, Crete. Archaeological Museum of Heraklion
Crete (Insula Cretica) in Tabula Peutingeriana
Temenos fortress was built by the Byzantines after the reconquest of the island from the Arabs
History of Greece
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The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope o
The ancient theatre of Dodona
The Temple of Hephaestus in Athens
Bust of Herodotus in Stoa of Attalus, one of the earliest nameable historians whose work survives.
Leonidas at Thermopylae by Jacques-Louis David.