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Sep 2021
50m 6s

Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete

Wondery / Patrick Wyman
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The Late Bronze Age was a remarkable time in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. An interconnected world sprang up, tying together the lands from Greece and Crete in the west all the way to Mesopotamia in the east and the Nile cataracts in the south. Let’s explore the Aegean during this time, looking at how palaces on Crete continued to grow and how ... Show More
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