A Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC

Usage examples of minoan.

With such a sport, in which life or death depended upon an instant, in which a slip of the foot, a misjudgment of distance, or a wavering of hand or eye meant horrible destruction, we may be sure that the tragedies of the Minoan bull-ring were many and terrible, and that the fair dames of the Knossian Palace, modern in costume and appearance as they seem to us, were as habituated to scenes of cruel bloodshed as any Roman lady who watched the sports of the Colosseum, and saw gladiators hack one another to pieces for her pleasure.

Minoan War Office, and refers to the equipment of the Chariot Brigade of the Knossian army.

We followed the old Minoan fashion here in Mesopotama (one of my foremothers much removed had come from Crete, I believe, bringing the fashion with her), and all noble unmarried girls displayed their breasts above their tight-waisted flounced skirts and between the flaring stiffened lapels of their heavily embroidered jackets.

All his experience with Minoan artifacts told him no, that the ship was genuine— but these logical incongruities were weighing heavily.

She had been picking up on the Minoan Linear A, evidently having a ready mind for interpretation.

Evidence for the Minoan Language) opened up a new field of study by showing that an early Minoan script, called Linear A, represented a Semitic language.