Posted on 07/21/2013 3:42:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Over 100 years of excavations on Crete have exposed elegant Minoan frescoes that once adorned the walls of the island’s Bronze Age palaces. This distinctively colorful Aegean art style flourished in the Middle Bronze Age (1750-1550 B.C.). The nearby inhabitants of Akrotiri, a city on the Cycladic island of Thera (modern Santorini), painted numerous artworks in the style of the Minoan frescoes before the island was decimated by a volcanic eruption in the late 17th or 16th century B.C.
Until recently, there was no archaeological evidence of Minoan frescoes beyond the islands of the Aegean. Art exhibiting Aegean characteristics has been uncovered at recent excavations in Egypt, Syria and Turkey—and at the Canaanite palace of Tel Kabri in Israel. In the July/August issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Tel Kabri excavators Eric H. Cline and Assaf Yasur-Landau explore how Aegean art, architecture and painted plaster fragments, reminiscent of Minoan frescoes, ended up at Canaanite Tel Kabri.
Aegean art at Tel Kabri was first discovered in 1989, when Aharon Kempinksi and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier uncovered a checkerboard floor with depictions of Aegean flora as well as 2,000 painted plaster fragments exhibiting characteristics similar to Minoan frescoes. The current Tel Kabri excavation, under the direction of BAR authors Eric H. Cline and Assaf Yasur-Landau,* has uncovered many more pieces of painted wall plaster. In addition to Aegean art, the team recently exposed an expensive building lined with Aegean-style orthostat blocks and dowel holes similar to those found in Aegean palaces.
Why would the Canaanite ruler of Tel Kabri want to adorn his palace with Aegean art reminiscent of Crete’s Minoan frescoes?
(Excerpt) Read more at biblicalarchaeology.org ...
:’) You know what I like.
His wife was Minoan! Made her happy and it was cheaper than vacationing in Crete.
There is a really good novel about Crete, the Illuminati, Moon Goddesses, etc titled “Waking The Moon”.
I forgot the author’s name but it really gets into a lot of history and mysticism without taking the whole Illuminati stuff too seriously. Well it is serious in the book but the author admits she doesn’t really believe any of that stuff.
2 to be exact.
And that's what I implied in my post. I said that even though the Exodus took place beforehand there were probably already some Philistines living in the area. The flood of them came later.
The more archeologists poke around, the more evidence is discovered that there was a lot of traveling around in ancient times with trade and diverse contacts between cultures.
Why would the Canaanite ruler of Tel Kabri want to adorn his palace with Aegean art reminiscent of Crete’s Minoan frescoes?”
Maybe the Caananites had their roots in Minoan culture.
The Argonaut Epos and Bronze Age Economic History
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1199756/posts
The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization
Lesson 25, The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1202723/posts
he Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization
Lesson 25, The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1290075/posts
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1201978/posts
found ‘em here:
King of the Wild Frontier (Hyksos art and architecture in the Sinai)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1464082/posts
Inscription in Carian and Greek
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1173453/posts?page=10#10
Non-Attic Characters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1173901/posts
Quarry, Setting and Team Marks: The Carian Connection
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1239452/posts
So Who Is Buried in Midas’s Tomb?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/596541/posts
Very nice topics list (working links):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2337119/posts?page=24#24
annnnnd...
New Ice-Core Evidence Challenges the 1620s age for the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1180724/posts
Hey, alright, the homepage doesn’t seem to exist, but the actual pages are still there!
Language Finger
https://www.google.com/search?q=language%20finger%20site%3Alib.umt.edu
Minoan Greek
http://www.lib.umt.edu/lang/miscieh.htm#MinGrk
The Exodus was in the 15th c BC, the Trojan War was in the late 8th c BC.
:’) The Canaanites are mostly a political tool for beating on modern Israel; this Minoan site was part of a whole different drift of people from Anatolia, the Aegean, and points n and w.
Thanks yarddog.
Yeah, the idea of coast-hugging 20 mile and back local trade is moribund.
Hey, I’ve always wanted to use moribund in a sentence. ;’)
The War was around 400 years earlier.
No, it wasn’t.
It's generally considered that the end of the bronze age was around 1200-1100 BC...the time of the Trojan War.
Actually, both were probably in the 13th century BC, about 1250 — though the Trojan War might have been a bit later, ca. 1175 BC (see my new book out on the Trojan War and a previous book that I published on biblical mysteries, including the Exodus)...And, do forgive my intrusion, but it IS my article that you posted which started this thread. :-) We’re currently still at Kabri, about to start the last week of excavation for this summer...Thanks for your interest in the topic...
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