The Minoans: A beginner's guide
Other excavations
Gournia
www.museum.upenn.edu/mellon/gournia/index.html
University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives website that contains
all the archaeological records of the 1901-04 expedition to Gournia on
Crete, carried out by Harriet Boyd Hawes.
Go to 'Document Archives': under 'Container List', you will be able to
download images of all Boyd Hawes' correspondence and read it.
Mochlos Archaeological Excavation
www.uncg.edu/~jssoles/Mochlos/first.html
Account of the archaeological work being carried out by the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro on a small island off Crete, once the
site of late Minoan and Mycenaean settlements.
Cretan Minoan Finds
www.archaeology.org/online/news/minoan.html
Account – from Archaeology magazine – of the
discovery of the fourth-largest Minoan palace and the oldest positively
dated (to the 17th century BC) fresco fragment to be found on Crete.
Discoveries at Khania in western Crete
www.athenapub.com/11khania.htm
An account of the discovery of a major Minoan ‘palace’ at Khania (also known as Kydonia).
Fuel for thought? Beeswax in lamps and conical cups from Late
Minoan Crete
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/071/Ant0710979.htm
Abstract of an article from the journal Antiquity, which
describes the research done on lamps and cups from a Minoan site that
reveals that beeswax was used as a form of illumination.
