a Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC
<noun.person> [ adj ]
of or relating to or characteristic of the Bronze Age culture of Crete
<adj.pert> the Minoan palace at Knossos
Archaeologists sifting through tons of discarded earth at a dig on the island of Crete have found more fragments of a unique gold-and-ivory figurine acclaimed as a masterpiece of Minoan sculpture.
The unique find from a Minoan cemetery outside the village of Arkhanes is a sistrum, a percussion instrument used at religious ceremonies in ancient times.
It probably was crafted around 1,500 B.C. in a period that produced some of the best Minoan art, MacGillivray said.