Aegean culture

Related to Aegean culture: Aegean civilization

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Aegean culture - the prehistoric civilization on the islands in the Aegean sea and the surrounding countries; "by 800 BC the entire Aegean had adopted this style of pottery"

Aegean civilisation, Aegean civilization

culture, civilisation, civilization - a particular society at a particular time and place; "early Mayan civilization"

Cyclades, Cycladic civilisation, Cycladic civilization, Cycladic culture - the Bronze Age civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea that flourished 3000-1100 BC

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Their art mirrors widespread international appeal, blending aspects of Egyptian, Assyrian, Mesopotamian and Aegean culture. Egyptian sphynxes, griffons and scarabs adorn their jewellery as well as gold and copper plates.

The Phoenicians from Tyre to Carthage: to celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris chose to explore the Phoenician enigma

and brought Minoan and associated Aegean culture and influence to an untimely end, and stifled Egypt and the Middle East for decades.