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“Out in the midst of the wine-dark deep lies a land called Crete, fair and fertile, circled by the sea,” wrote Homer in The Odyssey. Crete has had a stormy history. It is only in fairly recent times that its long and distinguished prehistoric period has been revealed. The story of archaeological discoveries in Crete in modern times is fascinating. Europe’s first major civilization was developed in Crete, more than 2,000 years before the beginning of the Christian era. Accounts of the remarkable lost island civilization of Atlantis is based upon legends about Minoan Crete. The Minoans were an intelligent people and they attained a high degree of civilization.
