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![Indus Valley Civilization](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/12856.jpg?v=1720183450)
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Indus Valley Civilization
The Indus Valley Civilization was a cultural and political entity which flourished in the northern region of the Indian subcontinent between c. 7000 - c. 600 BCE. Its modern name derives from its location in the valley of the Indus River...
![Mycenaean Art](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3374.jpg?v=1709644503)
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Mycenaean Art
The Mycenaean civilization flourished in the late Bronze Age from the 15th to the 13th century BCE, and their artists would continue the traditions passed on to them from Minoan Crete. Pottery, frescoes, and goldwork skillfully depicted scenes...
![Malia](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/363.jpg?v=1630018802)
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Malia
Located near a fertile plain in northern Crete and with its own harbour, Malia was one of the major settlements and palaces of the Minoan civilization. Inhabited since Neolithic times (6000 BCE) and with the first evidence of monumental architecture...
![Linear B Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3394.jpg?v=1709644443)
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Linear B Script
Linear B script was the writing system of the Mycenaean civilization of the Bronze Age Mediterranean. The syllabic script was used to write Mycenaean Greek from c. 1500 to c. 1200 BCE. It was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, and so...
![Thera](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2440.jpg?v=1719242045)
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Thera
Thera is the ancient name for both the island of Santorini in the Greek Cyclades and the name of the volcano which famously erupted on the island in the middle Bronze Age. The 17th century BCE eruption covered Akrotiri, the most important...
![Akrotiri Frescoes](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1361.jpg?v=1638528302)
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Akrotiri Frescoes
The Bronze Age frescoes from Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Thera (modern-day Santorini) provide some of the most famous images from the ancient Greek world. Sometime between 1650 and 1550 BCE Thera suffered a devastating earthquake which...
![Ancient Greece](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14624.png?v=1713460383)
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Ancient Greece
Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, known in Greek as Hellas or Ellada, and consisting of a mainland and an archipelago of islands. Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle), literature...
![A Visual Glossary of Greek Pottery](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1205.jpg?v=1672137062)
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A Visual Glossary of Greek Pottery
Alabastron (pl. alabastra) - a small jar for storing perfumes, named after the material (alabaster) the first examples were made from. They were often carried by a string looped around the neck of the vessel. Amphora (pl. amphorae...
![Minoan Horns of Consecration](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/688.jpg?v=1618751709)
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Minoan Horns of Consecration
Bull horns were a common religious symbol in the Cretan Minoan culture (2000 BCE - 1450 BCE), represented in fresco, on pottery and as here from the palace of Knossos, in architectural stone decoration.
![Map of Minoan Crete](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/348.png?v=1700179323)
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Map of Minoan Crete
A map of Minoan Crete.