Archaeological museum of Heraklion Crete <\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Hominids settled in Crete at least 130,000 years ago. In the later Neolithic and Bronze Age period, under the Minoans, Crete had a highly developed, literate civilization. Settlements dating to the aceramic Neolithic in the 7th millennium BC, used cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and dogs as well as domesticated cereals and legumes; ancient Knossos was the site of one of these major Neolithic (then later Minoan) sites. Other neolithic settlements include those at Kephala, Magasa, and Trapeza. Crete was the center of Europe’s first advanced civilization, the Minoan (c. 2700\u20131420 BC). This civilization wrote in the undeciphered script known as Linear A. Early Cretan history is replete with stories including King Minos, Theseus and the Minotaur, passed on orally via poets such as Homer. The volcanic eruption of Thera may have been the cause of the downfall of the Minoan civilization.Crere has been ruled by various ancient Greek entities, the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Emirate of Crete, the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. After a brief period of autonomy (1897\u20131913) under a provisional Cretan government, it joined the Kingdom of Greece. It was occupied by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The Herakleion Archaeological Museum is one of the largest and most important museums in Greece, and among the most important museums in Europe. It houses representative artefacts from all the periods of Cretan prehistory and history, covering a chronological span of over 5,500 years from the Neolithic period to Roman times. The singularly important Minoan collection contains unique examples of Minoan art, many of them true masterpieces. The Herakleion Museum is rightly considered as the museum of Minoan culture par excellence worldwide.Painting in the Minoan civilization: \u2018\u2019True\u2019\u2019 or \u2019\u2019wet\u2019\u2019 painting method. The nature of this technique allowed for improvisation, spontaneity, and the element of chance. Since they had to work within the time constrains of the drying plaster, the painters had to be very skillful, and their fluid brush strokes translated into the graceful outlines that characterize minoan painting. For this reason, this method of painting was most appropriate for the fluid moments of life and nature scenes that the Minoans favored, which contrasted sharply with the strict stylization and stereotyping typical of frescoes from other Mediterranean cultures of the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Natural History Museum of Heraklion Crete <\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Fauna and flora<\/strong> Crete is isolated from mainland \nEurope, Asia, and Africa, and this is reflected in the diversity of the \nfauna and flora. As a result, the fauna and flora of Crete have many \nclues to the evolution of species. There are no animals that are \ndangerous to humans on the island of Crete in contrast to other parts of\n Greece. Indeed, the ancient Greeks attributed the lack of large mammals\n such as bears, wolves, jackals, and poisonous snakes, to the labour of \nHercules (who took a live Cretan bull to the Peloponnese). Hercules \nwanted to honor the birthplace of Zeus by removing all “harmful” and \n“poisonous” animals from Crete. Later, Cretans believed that the island \nwas cleared of dangerous creatures by the Apostle Paul, who lived on the\n island of Crete for two years, with his exorcisms and blessings. There \nis a Natural History Museum operating under the direction of the \nUniversity of Crete and two aquariums – Aquaworld in Hersonissos and \nCretaquarium in Gournes, displaying sea creatures common in Cretan \nwaters.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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CRETAquarium <\/h1>\n\n\n\n
\nOne of the largest and most modern aquarium in Europe, Aquarium Crete-CRETAquarium founded and operates as part of HCMR.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Archaeological museum of Heraklion Crete Hominids settled in Crete at least 130,000 years ago. In the later Neolithic and Bronze Age period, under the Minoans, Crete had a highly developed, literate civilization. Settlements dating to the aceramic Neolithic in the 7th millennium BC, used cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and dogs as well as domesticated cereals and… <\/p>\n
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