Crete's Ashes & the Rise of the Hittites

A History of Mankind (26)

It's hard to overstate the impact of Crete on the development of future European civilization. One can't really look at Classic Greek art, the forefather of so much that later became identified with the idea of “Europe,” without noticing it's an almost direct descendent of Minoan art. Greek art evolved, became different, but it would have never existed,…