The Minoans were Caucasian

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 5-16-2013 | Damien Gayle

[Renfield]

DNA analysis has debunked the longstanding theory that the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established Europe's first advanced Bronze Age culture, were from Africa.

The Minoan civilisation arose on the Mediterranean island of Crete in approximately the 27th century BC and flourished for 12 centuries until the 15th century BC.

But the culture was lost until British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans unearthed its remains on Crete in 1900, where he found vestiges of a civilisation he believed was formed by refugees from northern Egypt.

Modern archaeologists have cast doubt on that version of events, and now DNA tests of Minoan remains suggests they were descended from ancient farmers who settled the islands thousands of years earlier.

These people, it is believed, are from the same stock that came from the East to populate the rest of Europe....

[Renfield]

Ping

[Sacajaweau]

But...but....it can’t be...we’re all descended from apes and I’ve never see a white ape.

[Truth29]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(gorilla)

[Daveinyork]

More than likely they were the same racial stock as the Achaean Greeks and the Hittites.

[D Rider]

Indeed, the Minoan shared the greatest percentage of their mitochondrial DNA variation with European populations, especially those in Northern and Western Europe.

When Atlantis sank we went north. ;)

[Gaffer]

Then, the DNA is raciss!

[bravo whiskey]

So all white people are cretans now. That explains everything.

[sphinx]

I thought it was well established that Minoan script is a form of early Greek.

[relictele]

This explains the lack of graffiti found in archaeological digs.

[Vaduz]

And crushed skulls.

[yarddog]

I have never read or heard of them being anything but Caucasian.

[Mount Athos]

Just had to look at their frescoes

[peteyd]

Try “Floquet de Neu”.

[elcid1970]

I’ve always noticed how Minoan women wore short sleeve tops that bared their breasts.

That lovely distraction has proven fatal to many an ancient civilization.

;^)

[Sherman Logan]

Not exactly.

The Minoans used two methods of writing, hieroglyphics (probably derived from but not the same as the Egyptian variety) and Linear A, a script but not an alphabet, which may have developed out of the hieroglyphs. Neither has been deciphered.

Linear A developed on the mainland among the barbaric Myceaneans into Linear B script, which has been deciphered and shown to be early Greek.

All attempts to similarly decipher Linear A have failed, which probably means the Minoans spoke a completely unrelated language.

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

Somebody “repaired” 2 or 3 of those. You kinda have to give allowance for the preservationist’s sense of aesthetics.

[BenLurkin]

I bet $10 that the guys who owned one of these things -- -- would rub them with their thumbs for "good luck".

[PoloSec]

See what Rev Manning has to say, you better never say it, but he lays it out, this man has more guts than one man could have.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AspYhwB8THU