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The Minoans: A beginner's guide

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Minoan art

Minoan Art
www.ou.edu/finearts/art/ahi4913/aegeanhtml/minoan.html
Hardly any text on this site (created  by an academic at the University of Oklahoma), but lots of photographs of pottery, sculpture, architecture, paintings, jewellery and tombs, plus a useful map and chronology.

Minoan Pottery: A history lesson
www.kinderart.com/arthistory/minoan.shtml
An art history lesson on Cretan pottery by Andrea Mulder-Slater.

Minoan Snake Goddess
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/snakegoddess/
Site – created by a professor of art history at Sweetbriar College, Virginia – devoted to the figurine discovered by Sir Arthur Evans, which expands to consider the place of snake goddesses  and women in Minoan culture and other subjects.