For some reason Crete has always interested me.
I remember from Greek mythology, the ancient Greeks considered Crete to have been an ancient power even from their 2500 year old or even older tales.
There's some classical Greek legends regarding Daedalus and Icarus and their employer, King Minos; also there's references in the Iliad to Cretan participation in the Trojan War; I don't recall much of anything else. Cadmus from the eastern Med, legendarily introduced alphabetic writing a la the Phoenicians, but Linear A and Linear B had been in use in the Aegean basin for a long time prior to that introduction. AFAIK there is no cuneiform inscription in any Mycenaean context, but it is now becoming accepted (as well it should have been for the past 80 years or more, when it was first discovered) that Mycenaean Greek place and personal names are found in the Hittite archives. It wouldn't be surprising if cuneiform tablets show up in the sift, for example in the new digging going on at Sparta. Cuneiform started in Sumeria and continued in use to record many languages and conduct diplomatic business for 3000 years, about as long as alphabetic script has been in use.