Word: crete
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What ever happened to the Minoan civilization? Centered on the island of Crete 15 centuries before Christ, the seagoing Minoans once dominated the commerce and influenced the culture of the eastern Mediterranean. Suddenly, their advanced civilization came to a catastrophic end. Great temples and lavish palaces fell into ruin. Traffic halted on a complex system of paved roads; elaborate viaducts crumbled, and most of the residents of Crete died or mysteriously disappeared...
...actually been destroyed around 1500 B.C. by falling ash and poisonous fumes from a volcanic eruption on the island of Thera (now called Santorin), 75 miles to the north. But the volcanic theory did not quite square with all the available facts; some of the pottery found on Crete, for example, had apparently been fashioned as late as 1450 B.C., 50 years after the estimated date of the Thera eruption...
Archaeologist Marinatos now believes that the latest geological findings explain the apparent discrepancy in his 1939 theory. In a paper recently presented at an archaeological conference in Canea, Crete, he explains that the first eruption destroyed all life on Thera around 1520 B.C., but had little effect on Crete, where the Minoan culture continued to flourish...
Pips & Crowns. Richard Ennis, with serious war in Dunkirk and Crete behind him, has been posted to the Rock. He is a foul-up sergeant in the Army Vocational and Cultural Corps, lecturing to monoglot Italian P.O.W.s, illiterate dockers and military no-hope types who are detailed to educational "parades" because nothing useful can be found for them to do. The Rock is not designed to sustain human life; it is a "chunk of strategic geology." It has escaped Axis capture only because-the bitter story goes-an American insurance company did not want its corporate symbol compromised. The Rock...
...island of Crete, Kazantzakis, explains the book's title...