EDITOR NOTE: It's interesting to me they keep making us think how Minoan were interesting when they were enslaving people, looting and mining, etc - they were very deadly dangerous MONSTERS! Trace Three thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks turned an even older civilisation into a monster Behind the myth of the Minotaur lies the ancient Minoan civilisation – a culture steeped in ritual, rich in symbolism, and obsessed with the power of bulls James Osborne Published: July 31, 2025 Half man, half bull and entirely terrifying, the Minotaur remains one of the most enduring mythic monsters from antiquity. According to Greek myth , it was born from an unwholesome combination of lust, punishment and divine retribution, hidden deep within a labyrinth so vast that no one could ever escape it. But behind the strange and violent tale of the Minotaur was a very real, and very ancient civilisation from whom the Minotaur took its name: the Minoans . Europe’s ...