Minoan fresco - courtesy Ancient Images The earliest towns appear to have developed in the middle of the 3d millennium B.C. without any influx of foreign immigrants. They were small communities but already practicing such arts as the weaving and dyeing of cloth. Some of the pottery shows ...

Minoan board game- courtesy Ancient Images In the heat of an Aegean summer little clothing was needed, and people are generally portrayed as lightly clad. Men wore a kind of kilt or loincloth, often with a prominent codpiece. Complete nudity was rare in minoan civilization, though it can ...