WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -When the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans discovered the 4, 000-year-old Palace of Minos on Crete in 1900, he saw the vestiges of a long-lost civilization whose artefacts set it apart from later Bronze-Age Greeks.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Minoans were the fist civilization to arise in Ancient Greece. The Minoans lived on the island of Crete from 2600 BCE to 1100 BCE.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Minoans, a vibrant and prosperous civilization, flourished in Crete in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. They are considered by many as the first European civilization, being a substantial artistic, trading and religious force in the prehistoric Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.