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The mysterious Eteocretans

Poor Minoans. A relentless series of famine, storms, earthquakes, fires, plague, foreign incursions, and volcanic eruptions reduced the masters of the universe to a group of destitute refugees living among the lofty mountains of Crete. And yet some of them survived for centuries, becoming the Eteocretans i.e. the genuine Cretans.

A world of clay

Pottery was ubiquitous in classical antiquity. At a time when metal was expensive, and glass was a luxury out of reach for the majority of households, clay became a cheap and durable material that could be employed for a bewildering variety of purposes

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