A bow-maker chines a bow from pernambuco. The lyre is threaded then with three strings made of horsetail. Ready now for the high melodies, it is placed vertically on the knees, longneck resting on ...

The resemblances between Cretan pictographs actually discovered at Knossos by Mr. Evans, and the "Phoenician" alphabet of the Moabite stone are very numerous and striking.

In contrast, Cretan R1b microsatellite-defined haplotypes displayed more resemblance to those from Northeast Italy than to those from Turkey and the Balkans.

Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur. Free Thinking. A new exhibition at the Ashmolean looks at the digs conducted by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos in Crete.