minoan

Talking about Minoan art, here's [1] an article about a jaw-droppingly exquisite seal stone only recently discovered.

Sure, he might well have exaggerated Minoan pacifism (and proto-feminism) to make a point, but didn't completely make it up either.

Who knows, but the list of things that point to Minoan pedigree is really interesting.

The Minoan language written with Linear A is probably unrelated to any other language.

Beekes has also supported Ariadne having a pre-Greek origin; specifically being Minoan from Crete because her name includes the sequence dn (δν), rare in Indo-European languages and an indication that it is a Minoan loanword.

I grew up in Greece and I learned early on about the Minoan palaces with running water (and internal heating).

Although not usually mentioned it existen in the late minoan age.

One of the Art Deco homes had really distinct Minoan themes.

For the unfamiliar, Linear A was an ancient script that is associated with the Minoan civilization of the island of Crete, around 1500 - 1800 BC.

Knossos or other Minoan cities didn’t have walls either.

It's hard to say for certain without being able to read their writing, but there's a high chance that Minoan woman were equal members of their society.

(Who, today, can recount the disappointments of the Minoan queens?) The other is that things you could do that are significant—even for a little while—are usually things that will probably fail.

For me, this link goes to a comment "Griffins in post-Minoan Cretan art." on a post titled "Winged lions through time and space".

The article is worthwhile and detailed -- thank you for posting) It appears that the author is trying to "solve" the origins of this mythos, using the commonly named Minoan culture as the core of the Bull in the story.

Even Wikipedia: "While historians and archaeologists have long been skeptical of an outright matriarchy, the predominance of female figures in authoritative roles over male ones seems to indicate that Minoan society was matriarchal, and among the most well-supported examples known."

The big problem that the article glosses over is that "labrys" is neither Minoan (to our limited knowledge) nor Greek, but Lydian: the Roman-era author Plutarch in Ætia Romana et Græca tells us that the Lydians call the double-headed axe λάβρυν, and people have assumed that it must have a nominative λάβρυς.

Minoan script and Mormon Deseret are in there because somebody stepped up.

Minoan tablets are maybe a bit closer and little progress has been made there (then again we are fully capable of reading the script just have no clue about the language it was written in).