The Minoans
By: Don Nardo.
Series: Lost civilizations; Lost civilizations (San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: Lucent Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781590185650
Subjects: Minoans -- Juvenile literature; Minoans
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: History of the Minoans, an ancient civilization unknown to historians until the 1870s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Grades 7-8.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the limitations of the sources; title: Arthur Evans and the discovery of Minoan civilization; title: Farming, finances, and trade in Minoan Crete; title: Political and social life in the Minoan towns; title: Minoan painting, architecture, crafts, and writing; title: Minoan religious places, gods, and rituals; title: The Minoans at war and the Mycenaean conquest; title: Minoan civilization is crippled by a volcanic eruption; title: Epilogue : the end of Minoan-Mycenaean civilization.