Prior to classical Greek culture, during the Bronze Age, lived the Minoans, credited as being Europe’s’ first great civilization.  Named after the legendary King Minos, the Minoans were an advanced society made up of highly cultivated artists and extremely intelligent engineers.

Research shows the Minoans were primarily mercantilist people, engaged in overseas trade and managed a lucrative maritime empire, dominating the Mediterranean, the Greek Islands, Greece, and expanded all the way out to the Black Sea. A sophisticated group of people, they were also the first Europeans’…