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Crete’s Minoan Palaces to Receive €3.5m Fire and Lightning Safety Upgrades Posted On 08 May 2025 By : GTP editing team Knossos archaeological site on Crete. Photo source: Culture Ministry The Greek Culture Ministry is enhancing fire and lightning protection at the archaeological site of Knossos on Crete as part of a 3.5 million euros project funded by the Regional Operational Program “Crete 2021–2027”. The upgrades are part of a broader plan to safeguard and enhance the site’s infrastructure and visitor experience. Knossos, Greece’s second-most visited archaeological site after the Acropolis of Athens, is central to a strategic ministry initiative aimed at preserving the island’s Minoan heritage. UNESCO nomination in sight Knossos, Crete. “Knossos and five other Minoan palace complexes are proposed as a serial nomination for the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2025,” said Culture Minister Lina Mendoni. She noted that restoration efforts are already underway and include imp...

  They don't know much at all... Archeologists discover 6,000-year-old skeletons with unexplained DNA that could rewrite history The Checua early population mysteriously vanished, leaving unanswered questions in their wake  Britt Jones Archeologists have found 6,000-year-old skeletons with DNA that could change everything that we know about our human existence. It’s not every day that new information presents itself which could see human history completely rewritten. But it has just happened. According to researchers, remains belonging to hunter-gatherers in Checua, Colombia, have DNA that doesn’t match any Indigenous group in the region in modern day. The ancient preceramic site is home to remains of people who have now been found to hold a lineage that is totally extinct in the world and could hold the key to us understanding more about the earliest humans to reach South America .

  MINOANS? SEA PEOPLE? Yup! www.forbes.com /sites/brucedorminey/2025/06/07/why-star-trek-owes-a-debt-to-ancient-crete/ Bruce Dorminey 6/7/2025 The ruins of the ancient Minoan Palace at Knossos, Crete Bruce Dorminey A stone's throw from Heraklion’s ancient city walls, a modern-day McDonald's stands at the crossroads of a busy urban thoroughfare here on the Greek island of Crete. Four thousand years ago, however, Crete was also a crossroads dominated by a mysterious and largely still poorly understood Bronze Age culture that predated classical Greece. For those familiar with Star Trek: The Next Generation , it’s hard not to compare Crete’s ancient Minoans with the Ferengi, the fictional 24th century traders so savvy in dealing across space, time and civilizations. Not only were the Minoans adept at trade, but they were likely well ahead of their time when it came to ...

  06-06-2025 By  Jordan Joseph Earth.com staff writer DNA from nine prehistoric skeletons, dated as far back as about 9,000 years ago, shows that early inhabitants near the southern Cape Province of South Africa experienced minimal population changes over many millennia. The site, known as Oakhurst rockshelter , is located about 4 miles (6.4 km) from the coast near the city of George and contained numerous stone-age tools that archaeologists recognize as indicators of shifting cultural practices. Researchers extracted and analyzed the ancient DNA of individuals from different layers of the site to piece together their genetic profiles. According to lead investigator Dr. Joscha Gretzinger from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, these people displayed a shared genetic heritage that stayed relatively stable until around 1,300 years ago. South African DNA patterns Archaeologists once assumed that outside groups had entered the region in multiple...