Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a bronze age civilization which arose on Crete, an island in the Aegean Sea. The Minoan culture flourished from approximately 2700 to 1450 BC; afterwards, Mycenaean Greek culture became dominant on Crete. The term "Minoan" was coined by the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans after the mythic King Minos. Minos was associated in myth with the labyrinth, which Evans identified as the site at Knossos. What the Minoans called themselves is unknown. It has sometimes been argued that the Egyptian place name "Keftiu" (*kaftāw) and the Semitic "Kaftor" or "Caphtor" and "Kaptara" in the Mari archives apparently refer to the island of Crete. In the Odyssey which was composed after the destruction of the Minoan civilization, Homer calls the natives of Crete Eteocretans ("true Cretans"); these may have been descendants of the Minoans.
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Noun
1. the bronze-age culture of Crete 3000-1100 BC
(synonym) Minoan civilisation, Minoan culture
(hypernym) culture, civilization, civilisation