poliochne was a ruined city on crete centre of the minoan bronze age civilisation.
poliochne was a ruined city on crete centre of the minoan bronze age civilisation.
a ruined city on crete centre of the minoan bronze age civilisation?
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santorini, one of the cyclades, is the location of ancient thera, an antique city on a ridge of the steep, 360 m high messavouno mountain, and of akrotiri, a minoan bronze age settlement.









































the samothrace temple complex is one of the principal pan-hellenic religious sanctuaries, located on the island of samothrace.









































crete, the largest greek island, has archaeological sites at phaistos in the south, zakros in the east, and most important of all, knossos in the centre, which is famous for its ruined minoan palace, with bull motifs.
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archaeologists abbreviate the chronological periods using two prefixes. the first one always refers to the major bronze age period which are early, middle and late. the second letter stands for the place: h for helladic, m for minoan and c for cycladic. lastly, some of these periods are further divided and distinguished from each other by adding roman numerals and sometimes letters for subperiods. thus, em iib refers to the last half of the second period of the early minoan bronze age. besides using this notation, since the bronze age in crete is based on the building, use, and destruction of important architectural structures known as "palaces" found throughout the island, minoan archaeologists tend to employ and use these as criteria to name the periods as pre-palatial, protopalatial, neopalatial and post-palatial.
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