The Ancient Minoans: The First Civilization In Western Europe | Island Of Minotaur | Odyssey 

I agree. Documentaries of old used to be artful; now they tend to be designed for the short attention spanned individual.

Nonsense. This is modern fluff. It's 90s history documentaries that were just something else.

New productions are short and tilted with agenda, even going against established tenets for cockeyed political purposes.

@@georgehunter2813 Your comment reminds me of the new Netflix documentary series about Alexander the Great. What total trash!

@@stevenhavick5327 There is a general decline in arts overall....in everything.

Thank you for this❤

She can lead me anywhere she likes.

SO this is what she used to look like before she put on all that weight? I was hoping this was current and that she had lost the weight. How disappointing.

@@cinemar Puerile!

Rude, she looks as good now as she did then.

Soft Porn for History Nerds

Aaaaay, hating on New Jersey? Reminds me of an old Frank Sinatra song. Where Frank sings " is it Granada I see, or only Asbury Park? " :-):-) JK

I doubt you would be so eager if you saw her nowadays tbh.

@@steveholmes3471 She is still hot. Very hot lady.

@@steveholmes3471 Truth. WTH did she do to herself??

She'd make Flint Michigan look like heaven

lol😂 I came to say how much it annoyed and distracted me. We are all different. I enjoyed the rest of the show, though.✌️

It’s genius. I couldn’t believe how evocative it was. I’m dying to know who is responsible for it.

I watch a channel called Fall of Civilizations and that music moves my spirit. It has a hopeful yet powerful sadness to it.

@@justkiddin84I totally agree and had to ffwd bits because it felt painful to my ears

ty for sharing a beautiful memory

Lies again? Rome Roma True Anal

I was fortunate to spend 3 weeks on the Mediterranean visited all the islands💕

She is an amazing presenter in every way.!

​@lane neal me too, Santorini 3 times, Crete and Rhode island once. I also took a speed ferry from Rhode island to Marinaras Turkey in July 2019

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@@Threezi04there are pyramids in Greece

@@MsObsidianReloadedThe commenter was joking lol, they’re teasing the title for calling Crete part of Western Europe

Crete is in east Europe !

@@MsObsidianReloaded Yes, Greece - the Jewel of Western Europe.

so cool to read this! People were much cooler in the 70s, but as one born in 1996 I can’t wait to visit Crete :)

Please remember and remind yourself of this truism: You were on drugs and that's what drugs do. You're welcome.

Do you remember which room it was? (I'd love to look up photos of it if you could describe any details). Was it the room with the famous dolphin murals?

@@miguelmurill1 Exactly!

@@twilightinavalon It's difficult to say, other than what the little sign read. Keep in mind that there were no walls, only remnants of them. So, yes I could see the dolphin mural from there, and I believe it was close by. But if they still call it the queen's love chamber (or something similar), then it may be on a guide map.

A wonderful museum. I love how playful Minoan art seems to be.

Thanks for the amazing piece of information 🌎❤🇬🇷🌍❤🇬🇷🌏❤🇬🇷🇺🇲❤🇬🇷

They dressed snazzy. They really liked luxury items. And the dudes had a lot of bravado to leap over bulls for sport, like that.

Minoans were greek. In fact linear a and b were primitive forms of protogreek writing

@@edgardoaltmann8619 hrhmmm...

Arthur Evans did his very best to "restore " the artifacts. Maybe too much, known fact. With the help with a well known decorator/illustrator in those days. Known fact.

Yes. Knossos is not so much preserved, as created.

Wow. What painstaking work!

@@valeriekenny4483 Thx took MM and myself 7 weeks to do , loved doing it high point of my career , he specialised in measuring and recording , me in cleaning

Wow. You did wonderful work.

Thx v much high light of my career so far @@ananya1721

I’m going marry her one day. A top the walls of Troy.

I totally agree with you. She's also easy on the eyes. 🙂

You can pretty much see the thousand ships launched for her on the horizon.

Very beautiful too

She has ballooned

Need better narrator

The title is a plain lie.

There was no corn in the Mediterranean at that time.

God yes

It is just middle eastern. Especially ancient Greeks, belonged to the Middle East. Anatolia is a part of Middle East. The Middle East before ☪️ancer was amazing.

@@R2d2.. actually christian romans have destroyed these civilizations 😂

And distortion of geography. "Western" Europe.

Imagine a black dwarf

For real all one got to do is close your eyes n it will take up there ✌🏾🙏🏾

Bears some resemblance with age of mythology's soundtrack

The music in her program about Sparta is awesome as well

Doesn't sound too Greek tho tbh. Greek music had flutes and guitars and harps

Agreed, she's fantastic.

And her voice tells you she enjoys history so much

Well said.

Agreed. You can clearly see that she has a genuine passion for history :=)

@@jaymartin8273 I can clearly see a lot of things

Brittney is a wonderful TO watch

It is often true in history that the one who gets the public credit for "first" was not the actual first. Publicity vs "truth." How much else is wrong in our orthodox view of the world?

Likewise calvert at troy. He is given little credit for being the first to want to excavate there.

Just a common case of British imperialism and the superiority complex of "professional" dead white male archaeologists, explorers, and history professors. Just like Columbus thinks he "discovered" America. Eg, Indigenous Egyptian archaeologists have been written out of existence for centuries.

So says you

Ideas and content, That's always a treat!

@@Adrian-vy5vn Well they probably had a high infant mortality rate and lots of disease too, but other than that it was probably pretty nice

@@ThatBernie they probably had a far better life than any other people from bronze age, including Egyptians and Mesopotamians

@@Adrian-vy5vn I suppose that could be answered by looking at the archaeological record, e.g. did the Minoans have better bone density than the Mesopotamians etc., in addition to other things that could indicate the health and longevity of ancient peoples.

@@ThatBernie that would be very interesting indeed

@@Adrian-vy5vn I must admit that, from my completely subjective and personal point of view, I would rather be on wind-swept Crete than in sweltering Egypt or Mesopotamia (assuming the climate in the Bronze Age was roughly the same as it is today, of course)

The lack of fortifications , of Minoans, does not mean they were volunerable and defenseless. On the contrary, it points to Minoans being a dominant commercial and military power in their neighborhood. Being an island, is a natural fortification in itself. An inavader would have to dominate the sea, in order to secure beachhead. Without naval dominance no invasion of Minoan Crete is possible. A raiding party , landing, would be met on coat by Minoan ground troops. So Minoans were masters of their domain, until Thera eruption put an end to their civilization, around 1650 b.c.

Anyone who came calling with evil intent was destroyed on the water is the conclusion.

The myth of the minotaur might have been a demonization of the Minoan religion and culture, wich was most likely detested by the micheneans... Some of their cities might have been conquered by the minoans, Who influenced their culture and probably asked for tributes, most likely slaves and human sacrifices. Bones of children have been found, and they were all in good health before their death. They were also probably eaten. It's possible that their religion was centered around a dying and rising sun God, Who became the minotaur, and a mother goddess of fertility. To these gods, probably to ensure the rebirth of the sun God and thus ensure the fertility of the Land, blood offering were made. They seemingly practiced ritual cannibalism. Their religion Is related to that of the middle east, the greek themselves thought so. Dying and rising gods like Attis, Baal etc are popular in the east. The God Dionysus might have been derived from the Minoan deity. He Is associated with the bull, Is characterised since the minoan times as a forein deity, he Is a dying and rising horned god of fertility and resurrection, and Is married to the cretan princess Ariadne, whose name in the minoan language meant "the most holy", probably the name of the original goddess of the Island. This name appears in linear B texts, as a goddess, the mistress of the labirinth. According to some greeks Dionysus and his cult originated from Crete.

Thy were probably no threat militarily, and as such more was to be gained by cooperating with them financially then destroying them or trying to rule by force.

Thank you for your kind words.

she is beautiful, makes it easy to listen though my mind wanders

She's busty Jeff

I know, such amazing, atmospheric music...

Easy on the eyes as well

@@jamesgoulde You're not wrong there...

Some parts kinda remind me of Age of Mythology's game soundtrack. It's the eerie magic from ancient times

Right on

No doubt!

You're right, great documentary with awesome views of Crete of which are rarely seen. I think the title of this doc using the name Minotaur is a magnet. I was wondering myself where is the Minotaur in all of this and especially the spectacular acrobatic Art of Bull Leaping? Failing to mention the Minotaur and especially the horrific sacrificial rites involving the MInotaur, fine, as I think so much of Crete and its historical reputation is related to this dark historical fact, yet there is also so much beauty that their culture posessed like Beautiful Artwork and sculpture, Acrobatic forms, Athletics And of course Bull Leaping, not just activity of trade, politics and religion. Intriguing documentary nonetheless.

And how come Crete in western Europe?

I've noticed the difference between this intelligent woman speaking confidently with rationality and the vacuous ranting of woke left feminists and girls complaining about the dating scene. This lady is far more attractive to me and I am sure would demand and get RESPECT from any man who would peruse a relationship with her.

I'd like to see her dressed as a Minoan priestess. With breasts exposed and a snake wrapped around her.

@@glstka5710 lol someone's just been dumped.

@@glstka5710I’ll buy that for a dollar, spot on 😍

@@glstka5710 U mad bro?

I'm glad you said that because I thought I fell asleep or something and missed it because I certainly did miss it...

Yep! Me too :=)

@General Melchett just say it.... she got fat... well it is 2021, let's judt say thick . . lol I forgot what video I justcwatched with her, but man the buttons on her jacket were struggling to hold themselves together. ..she still looked good though reminds me of Nigella lawson

Wtf is wrong w yall lol

@@topherbee6788 just pointing out the truth...what's wrong with that?

@@fcukyou2_ Just pointing out irrelevancies. Did you actually listen to what she said?

Especially Beth the Hughes

She's smoking hot :D

She is a really good presenter of places and History. Her voice is almost seductive. But...some inaccuracies and terminological inexactitudes have survived/slipped in her presentation!

She is very smart and very good looking.

@@StanSwan she used to be good looking.

@@steveholmes3471 She still is :=)

@@jaymartin8273 Not anymore. She got huge.

I agree. I spent some time on Crete in 1971. Nice people. Everything seemed to move very slowly. The presenter is beautiful.

@@larryschweitzer4904 Hi Larry! Any relation to one of my idols, Albert? I was there only 2 months and always thought I'd be one for globe trotting adventures and only was in Newfoundland/Nova Scotia, though a fantastic place, Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux Rez about 5 times, also Mexico with the Zapotecs and Lacandon, 6 months, Guatemala 2 weeks, and that's it. I want to be a Dharma Bum for extended time and go by ebike all over the world including major time in Greece. Wow, did you see just hours ago sad news of major quakes on Crete? One of my favorite books, "Zorba the Greek", by Nikos Kazanzakis (sp?). I have a lot to do with my songwriting before I go and pandemic holding things up and enough money for a good ebike and a good 4 season tent, which those items are very expensive. I believe like Tolstoy wrote about Ivan Ilyich (sp?) "Don't die with your music in you."...

@mwj Agree! And thank you for your excellent post. I was in Crete with my husband in an old VWCombi van, 1976. We didn't know much about Crete's ancient history, being only in our 20's then. But we loved the place, the people, the markets, the beaches, and herds of multicolored goats with neck bells clanking. What was a surprise to us was the warmth and recognition of villagers who would smile broadly at us, and point to our New Zealand 🇳🇿 flag and badge on our VW's front grille. Of course! In World War II , the Australians and New Zealand troops [collectively called ANZACS] fought alongside the Cretan and Greek resistance to overcome the Axis powers. They have long memories indeed. I wish I could return. Greetings from Auckland New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤

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Brilliant video of the Minoan civilization with a very informative narrator.

Dan Davis History is awesome too

So right

It was my favourite island. I was glad to visit the site of Thera on Santorini but otherwise I loved touring around Crete, including 4 days on a Vespa. Chania was a gem that at least then had little made of it in guide books.

Cyprus not to shabby either....

Not at all ​@@hara3435

whats the name of the demigod?

Are you speaking about nandhi?