The Minoan civilization was very developed.

米诺斯文明非常发达。

They're very much like the iconography that you find in Minoan Crete.

它们拥有和你克里特岛上发现的米诺斯时期人造品相似的艺术构成。

It's now one of the highlights of the British Museum's Minoan collection.

它现大英博物馆克里特文明集合的一个亮点。

Crete's Minoan civilization is famous for its complex palaces, colorful art, and mysterious writing system.

克里特岛的米诺斯文明以其复杂的宫殿、丰富多彩的艺术和神秘的文字系统而闻名。

Greece's Culture Ministry said recently that the structure is unlike any other from Crete's ancient Minoan civilization.

希腊文化部最近表示，这座与克里特岛古代米诺斯文明中的任何其都不同。

Among island empires, why did writing arise in Minoan Crete but not in Polynesian Tonga?

岛屿帝国中，为什么文字出现米诺斯克里特岛而不波利尼西亚汤加？

The bull cult was at the centre of Minoan culture.

公牛米诺斯文化的核心。

In Minoan Crete, it was considered a holy mountain, and several myths were closely associated with it.

米诺斯克里特， 伊达山被视为圣山，与之紧密相连的还有多个神话传说。

The Minoan culture produced mead and credited it to their mother goddess Potnia, whose priestesses were named Melissa meaning bee.

米诺安文化制作蜂蜜酒， 并将其归功于们的母神波特尼亚，她的女祭司被称为梅利莎， 意为蜜蜂。

He thought the script, dubbed Linear B, represented the Minoan language, and scholars all over the world came up with their own theories.

猜想这种被称作 “线形文字 B” 的文本代表了米诺斯文明的语言，而全世界的学者则众说纷纭。

Evans's interpretations of these engravings eventually led him to find the Minoan palace at Knossos (Knos6s) , on the island of Crete, in 1900.

埃文斯对这些雕刻进行解读，最终于 1900 年克里特岛克诺索斯遗址找到了米斯诺王宫。

In a domino effect, Ventris unraveled Linear B, with each word revealing more clearly that the language of Linear B was not Minoan, but Greek.

如多米诺骨牌一般，文特里斯环环相扣地破译了线形文字 B，每个词都愈发清晰地表明线形文字 B并不米诺斯语，而希腊语。

The island of Crete was at the heart of the Minoan civilization that dominated the Aegean and Mediterranean world in the second millennium BCE.

克里特岛米诺斯文明的中心，该文明公元前第二个千年主宰了爱琴海和地中海世界。

Notably, Matala is close to Phaestus, the Minoan civilization's second-largest palace, having served as its port in the past and later for Gortyn during Roman times.

值得注意的， 马塔拉靠近克里特岛第二大宫殿——费斯托斯，这里曾米诺斯文明的港口，后来罗马时期又成为戈尔廷的港口。

The small bronze statuette from Minoan Crete, unique as it is, is also a very good indicator of this key commodity, bronze, that was sought after throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

克里特的这尊青铜小雕像件很好的证物，让我们了解青铜当时整个地中海东部地区需求巨大的重要商品。

But the discovery that Linear B represented Greek, and not Minoan, showed that the opposite had happened: mainland Greeks invaded Crete and adopted the Minoan script for their own language.

但线形文字 B 属于希腊语，而非米诺斯语这一发现揭示了事实恰恰相反：大陆上的希腊人入侵了克里特岛，并借用了米诺斯文字作为自己的语言。

The explosion was so powerful that it wrecked Santorini's ancient city of Akrotiri and dealt a fatal blow to the seafaring Minoan civilization, which had settled on the island at the time.

这场爆炸威力巨大，以至于摧毁了圣托里尼古城阿克罗蒂里，并对定居岛上的海洋文明米诺斯王国造成致命打击。

This disaster likely brought about the end of the Minoan civilization, and some scholars believe that the story of Atlantis represented a sort of folk memory of these events.

这场灾难很可能导致了米诺斯文明的终结，一些学者认为， 关于亚特兰蒂斯的故事代表了人们对这些事件的一种民间记忆。

For the same reason, we can be sure that the Linear B syllabary of Mycenaean Greece had been adapted by around 1400 B.C.from the Linear A syllabary of Minoan Crete.

出于同样的原因，我们可以肯定，希腊迈锡尼的线性 B 音表公元前 1400 年左右就已经从克里特岛米诺斯的线性 A 音表改编而来。

CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'SMOTHER ONJULY3, 1908, ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THEancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, chanced upon one of the most remarkable objects in the history of technology.

第十三章 必要性窒息 1908 年 7 月 3 日，考古学家克里特岛费斯托斯挖掘古代米诺斯宫殿时，偶然发现了技术史上最引人注目的物品之一。