According toThe Greek Reporter , a newly find tomb dating back to the time of the Minoan civilization has been unearthed in Crete . It was discovered just below the surface of an olive grove near the town of Ierapetra on the easterly department of the island .
A husbandman first discovered the tomb when his vehicle got stuck in the mud under an olive Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . His attempts to liberate it let on a chip at tombstone , and archeologist were subsequently called in .
Details are still sparse , but it appear that the tomb is divide into three freestanding chambers and was blocked by a clay barrier at the original entering . It contains two grownup male skeletons , several carvings , and24 fondness - looking , well - preserved pots , which , found on preliminary estimates , all particular date to between 1500 and 1400 BCE .
The Minoan civilization has quite the celebrated account .
Crete became the center of Bronze Age cultivation in the Aegean Sea , and , perEncyclopedia Britannica , was representative of a fairly advanced refinement as early on as the third millennium prior to the Common Era . peak at around 1600 BCE , the Minoans – named after the mythological King Minos of Knossos – built massive city and originate a unequalled art and architectural vogue . They became a seafaring people , pass on as far as mainland Greece and taking their civilization with them .
thing eventually took a turn for the bad . Several incidences – possibly quake , curb forces from the mainland , or both – stop up leading to the demolition of several of their palaces on Crete , including at Knossos .
Between 1600 and 1501 BCE , a cataclysmiceruptionon the island of Santorini ( then know as Thera ) forget much of the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri beneath 40 meters ( 130 feet ) of ash tree and pumice . Either the crash of the caldera into the sea or the generation of vast amounts of pyroclastic material that then fall into the sea produceddevastating tsunamistoo , which reached Crete .
Although not the only constituent that led to the downfall of the civilization , it certainly play a role . Around two C after this event , the Minoans were no more .
So where does this new tomb fit into all this drama ? Well , considering the fact that it probably date back to the Late Minoan Period , from 1400 BCE to 1100 BCE , whomever the grave belong to lived during the twilight years of their civilization . At present tense , however , their identities stay strange , although the in high spirits - timber ceramic they were bury with suggest they werefairly wealthy .
It was ultimately superseded by the Mycenaean civilization , who rose to protrusion about the same time the Minoans were peak . You may know the Mycenaeans good from thelegendary storyof the perhaps mythological King Agamemnon , who was said to have led the Greeks in the Trojan War .
