Head of a Cycladic idol (3200-2800 BC) marble
Paris, Musée du Louvre


c.1500 B.C.

Sacred horns at Knossos, with sacred Mt. Juktas in the distance

Palace of Knossos, north entrance (reconstruction) c. 1700 BC

Knossos - The West Entrance
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Knossos - Courtyard and Royal Pavillion
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Knossos - Western Facade
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Knossos - King's Balcony
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Knossos - Upper Hall of the Royal Guard
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Knossos - Down into the Labyrinth
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Knossos - Throne Room

Knossos - Queen's Chamber
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Knossos - Storage Jars in the Labyrinth
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Knossos - Storage Jar


Minoan Religious Art

Bull sacrifice and sacred tree.  Detail from the two sides of the Hagia Triada sarcophagus

Knossos - A priestess at the altar.  (detail of the Hagia Triada sarcophagus)

La Parisienne (1600-1500 BC) fresco – from the Palace of Knossos
Heraklion, Archeological Museum

The "Parisienne" fresco, Knossos - after 1600 B.C.
Heraklion Archeological Museum

Knossos, Crete -- Bull-dancing fresco - after 1600 B.C.
Heraklion Archeological Museum

Cretan Bull
Heraklion Archeological Museum

Phaestos Disk
Heraklion Archeological Museum

Snake goddess (c. 1500 BC) earthenware – from the Palace of Knossos
Heraklion, Archeological Museum

Goddesses of the Palace at Knossos - c. 1600
Heraklion Archeological Museum

The excavation of Troy (1800s)

Hattusha - Aerial View

Hattusha - Hittite Acropolis
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Hattusha - View of the Lower Town from the Acropolis
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Hattusha - Entrance to the Great Temple
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Hattusha - Scratch Marks Made by a Door
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Hattusha - The King's Gate
(a bas-relief stone replacing the one in the Ankara Museum)
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Hattusha - Inisde the King's Gate
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Hattusha - The Lion's Gate

Bogazkale - Postern Gate
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Hattusha / Bogazkale - View from the Upper Wall
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Bogazkale - Another View of the Surounding Countryside from the Upper Wall
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Midas' Tomb
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The Walls of Gordion
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The broken towers of Tyre

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