The Minoans used whole tree-trunks, usually turned upside down in order to prevent re-growth, stood on a base set in the stylobate (floor base) and topped by a simple round capital. These were then painted as in the most famous Minoan palace of Knossos.The Minoans employed columns to create large open-plan spaces, light-wells and as a focal point for religious rituals.

The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The palace-based Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe.. After the Minoan civilization was devastated by the Thera eruption, Crete developed an Ancient Greece-influenced organization of city-states, then successively became …

En la mitología griega. La Teogonía de Hesíodo cuenta [10] cómo, tras el Caos, surgió Gea «la de amplio pecho», la eterna fundación de los dioses del Olimpo.De su propio ser, «sin mediar el grato comercio», trajo a Urano, el cielo estrellado, su igual, para cubrirla a ella y a las colinas, y también a Ponto, la infructuosa profundidad del mar.

In ancient times, the sea was the birthplace of two ancient civilizations – the Minoans of Crete and the Myceneans of the Peloponnese. The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean islands, flourishing from around 3000 to 1450 BC before a period of decline, finally ending at around 1100 BC.

Old Europe is a term coined by the Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age cultural horizon or civilisation in Southeastern Europe and part of Central-Eastern Europe, centred in the Danube River valley. Old Europe is also referred to in some literature as the Danube civilisation.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by LucasArts and originally released on June 1, 1992 for Amiga, DOS and Macintosh.Almost a year later, it was reissued on CD-ROM as an enhanced "talkie" edition with full voice acting and digitized sound effects. The seventh game to use the script language …

Names. It is also called a lift, well pole, well sweep, or simply a sweep in the US. A less common English translation is swape. Picotah (or Picota) is a Portuguese loan word. It is also called a jiégāo (桔槹) in Chinese.The Tamil name is thulla (துலா) while Telugu name is ethaamu (ఏతాము) or ethamu (ఏతము).. History. The shaduf, or sweep, is an early crane-like ...

In ancient Roman religion, the Di Penates (Latin: [ˈdiː pɛˈnaːteːs]) or Penates (English: / p ɪ ˈ n eɪ t iː z / pin-AY-teez) were among the dii familiares, or household deities, invoked most often in domestic rituals.When the family had a meal, they threw a bit into the fire on the hearth for the Penates. They were thus associated with Vesta, the Lares, and the Genius of the pater ...

Zakros (Greek: Ζάκρος; Linear B: ???????????? zakoro) is a site on the eastern coast of the island of Crete, Greece, containing ruins from the Minoan civilization.The site is often known to archaeologists as Zakro or Kato Zakro.It is believed to have been one of the four main administrative centers of the Minoans, and its protected harbor and strategic location made it …

Astarte (/ ə ˈ s t ɑːr t iː /; Ασταρτη, Astartē) is the Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess Ashtart or Athtart (Northwest Semitic), a deity closely related to Ishtar (East Semitic), who was worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity.The name is particularly associated with her worship in the ancient Levant among the Canaanites and Phoenicians ...

Caucasus hunter-gatherer (CHG), also called Satsurblia Cluster is an anatomically modern human genetic lineage, first identified in a 2015 study, based on the population genetics of several modern Western Eurasian (European, Caucasian and Near Eastern) populations. The CHG lineage descended from a population that split off the base Western Eurasian lineage very …

Luxor was the ancient city of Thebes, the great capital of Upper Egypt during the New Kingdom, and the glorious city of Amun, later to become the god Amun-Ra.The city was regarded in the ancient Egyptian texts as wAs.t (approximate pronunciation: "Waset"), which meant "city of the sceptre", and later in Demotic Egyptian as ta jpt (conventionally pronounced as "tA ipt" and …

Poppy seed is an oilseed obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum).The tiny, kidney-shaped seeds have been harvested from dried seed pods by various civilizations for thousands of years. It is still widely used in many countries, especially in Central Europe and South Asia, where it is legally grown and sold in shops.The seeds are used whole or ground into meal as an …

This is a list of island countries.An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. Many island countries are spread over an archipelago, as is the case with Indonesia and the Philippines (both countries consist of thousands of islands). Others consist of a single island, such as Barbados or Nauru, or part of an island, such as the Brunei or the …