Search / 4 posts tagged Minoan Culture

Gershom Gorenberg And from The American Prospect: All year long I write about tribal conflicts. In August, when Israeli tribal customs dictate vacation, I want to get away not just from e-mail but also from news, politics, and insistent national claims. But I’m not terribly good at it.

The exhibition “From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000-1100 B.C.”, in its first showing outside of Crete, at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York, is organized by the affiliated Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) in collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Archaeological Museums of Crete.

The Onassis Cultural Center in New York is presenting a new exhibition called “From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000-1100 B.C.” The exhibit displays more than 280 artifacts from Crete. Most people are unfamiliar with the Minoan civilization.

Archaeologist Nikolaos E. Platon (1909-1992), a native of the island of Cephalonia, was an expert in Minoan civilization who undertook many excavations in Boeotia, Evia, Fthiotida, the Sporades and Crete.