How peaceful were the Minoans, really? Why did they leave behind no iconography of war, no murals of battles, no towering ...

What it is: A fired clay disk inscribed with symbols that have never been deciphered Where it is from: The ancient Minoan civilization on the Mediterranean island of Crete When it was made ...

The inscription is divided into metopes or separate sections, within which logographic symbols representing animals ... This reinforces the hypothesis that Minoan writing was not limited to accounting ...