Minoans may have invented the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

Minoans may have created the first portable eclipse calculator, predating the Antikythera mechanism by over a millennium.

Near the town of Palaikastro, located at the eastern end of the island of Crete, lies the archaeological site of a city from ...

For a livelier vibe, the seaside resort of Palaikastro, with its boho cafes and sandy coves (popular with windsurfers), is a 15-minute drive from Sitia. How to do it ...

In the article dedicated to the Mardaites, the Christian highlanders who maintained their autonomy between Byzantium and the Caliphate, we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry ...

Charred by a fire that swept through a prehistoric town at Palaikastro, on Crete's eastern coast, the statue had been broken into more than 200 pieces. Researchers used a water sieve to sift ...

One of their largest settlements was at Palaikastro on the eastern edge of the island, one of the sites where Canadian archaeologist Sandy MacGillivray has been excavating for 25 years. Here, he has ...

Author of the book Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making, Knappett is currently directing fieldwork at Palaikastro on the island of Crete in Greece, and also conducts research on pottery from a ...

We’ve picked out a few strange but striking Bronze Age artifacts to highlight below. Marine style vase from Palaikastro. (Credit: Olaf Tausch/CC BY-30/Wikimedia Commons) The Minoans, famous for the ...

Pp. viii + 280 + 14 Plates. With Supplementary Paper No. 1: The Unpublished Objects from the Palaikastro Excavations, 1902–1906. Described by R. C. Bosanquet and R. M. Dawkins. Part 1.