[Destro]

By the time of the Sea People's Crete was "Greek". The Greeks came about by the mixing of the aboriginal peoples of Greece with the arriving Indo-European speakers. So the Minoans were proto-Greek. The culture that replaced Minoan used its writting system but it wrote in Greek.

In any case the Philistines and the Phoenicians are NOT one and the same. The Philistines were Indo-Europaan language speaing Greeks - not Semetic Phoenicians. See my links.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

You are right about the difference between Philistines and Phoenicians - my bad.

However, I still stand by my assertion that, although related, Grecian and Minoan culture were distinct and separate. As to origins, there is much speculation. All that can be said for certain is that both cultures were Aegean. We do know that the Minoans caused great havoc west of the Hellespont.