Archeological discoveries in Crete are put into a theoretical historical context. Selected contents: Palace of Knossos and the sea power of Minos; The beginnings of Minoan civilization; Egyptian chronology and the date of the middle Minoan periods; The end of the Bronze Age; The labyrinth and the Minotaur; Crete and the East; Neolithic pottery of South Russia and Central Europe; Crete and the Homeric poems; Appendices. Illustrated.