Word: minoan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sloppy research] Cleopatra's sister did not die in jail under Caesar's rule; the sphinx did not look brand-new in Cleopatra's time; the columns in Cleopatra's palace looked Minoan (an era 1,100 years earlier...
...those maxims sound obvious, contradictory, or both, well, the facts about earthquakes are too. Upheavals of the earth have stunned humans and ravaged their works since prehistoric times: some scholars believe the ancient Minoan civilization and the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were wiped out by quakes. Nonetheless, the tremors have never ceased to spring surprises on those who study them and try to cope with them...
...there it was...a big Minoan mason's mark all over the facade of the tomb. It was the first time we ever understood that Cretan architects were building Greek tombs for Greek princes," says Vermeule...