Minoan culture

Minoan dress: Minoan women wore bell-shaped skirts that had decorations attached to the cloth in ruffles. Women also wore close-fitting blouses that were cut low in the front to expose the breasts. A tiny waist was prized, so they wore tight belts made of metal, which held their waists in.

The Adorants: From Akrotiri Collection Replica Panel Sizes: 16” x 24” | 24” x 32” | 32” x 48” | The frescoes of three elaborately dressed women were found in the “Lustral Basin” of Xeste 3. They appear to be heading towards what scholars have interpreted as an altar/shrine. The women’s rich clothing, fine jewelry, and meticulous grooming indicate the social status and importance of this composition.

Minoan fresco.

replicas of Minoan clothing by Bernice Jones, in Archaeology Magazine

“Minoan fresco from Knossos palace,16th c.BC.Crete,Greece.”

Minoan hair: Curly hair was associated with royalty and many did hair down with hair crowns with leafs and flowers in gold.

Minoan Civilization Digital Artifacts. These relics will assist us in understanding the Minoan culture as well as other crucial information.

(Peter Connolly/Apollonius /user: Aethon)

People as you know Lordgood is working in our mod Aristeia (bronze mod). So I want focus to Minoans to be second playable civ, but we haven't document desing yet. So here we can put sources for minoans and civ Minoans we use for developenmt news and game screenshots

Character concept art exercise of combining two civilizations. This would be the same couple, before and after marriage.

Thera, Akrotiri-Xeste 3. Detail from the Adorants fresco: woman holding a necklace. Museum of Prehistoric Thera. Hellenic Ministry of Culture/ARF.

Between 3500 and 1500 BC a very attractive and rather mysterious civilization developed and then vanished on the island of Crete in the southern Aegean Sea. In Greek myth the ruler of this realm wa…