The Minoan civilization was very developed.

斯明非常发达。

Crete's Minoan civilization is famous for its complex palaces, colorful art, and mysterious writing system.

克里特岛的斯明以其复杂的宫殿、丰富多彩的艺术和神的系统而闻名。

Greece's Culture Ministry said recently that the structure is unlike any other from Crete's ancient Minoan civilization.

希腊化部最近表示，这座建筑克里特岛古代斯明中的任何其他建筑都不同。

They're very much like the iconography that you find in Minoan Crete.

它们拥有和你在克里特岛上发现的斯时期人造品相似的艺术构成。

It's now one of the highlights of the British Museum's Minoan collection.

它现在是大英博物馆克里特明集合的一个亮点。

Among island empires, why did writing arise in Minoan Crete but not in Polynesian Tonga?

在岛屿帝国中，为什么出现在斯克里特岛而不是波利尼西亚汤加？

Evans's interpretations of these engravings eventually led him to find the Minoan palace at Knossos (Knos6s) , on the island of Crete, in 1900.

埃斯对这些雕刻进行解读，最终于 1900 年在克里特岛克索斯遗址找到了斯王宫。

The Minoan culture produced mead and credited it to their mother goddess Potnia, whose priestesses were named Melissa meaning bee.

斯化生产蜂蜜酒并将其归功于他们的母神波特尼亚，其女祭司被命名为梅丽莎， 意思是蜜蜂。

In a domino effect, Ventris unraveled Linear B, with each word revealing more clearly that the language of Linear B was not Minoan, but Greek.

如多骨牌一般，特里斯环环相扣地破译了线形 B，个词都愈发清晰地表明线形 B并不是斯语，而是希腊语。

He thought the script, dubbed Linear B, represented the Minoan language, and scholars all over the world came up with their own theories.

他猜想这种被称作 “线形 B” 的本代表了斯明的语言，而全世界的学者则众说纷纭。

But the discovery that Linear B represented Greek, and not Minoan, showed that the opposite had happened: mainland Greeks invaded Crete and adopted the Minoan script for their own language.

但线形 B 属于希腊语，而非斯语这一发现揭示了事实恰恰相反：大陆上的希腊人入侵了克里特岛，并借用了斯作为自己的语言。

The small bronze statuette from Minoan Crete, unique as it is, is also a very good indicator of this key commodity, bronze, that was sought after throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

克里特的这尊青铜小雕像是件很好的证物，让我们了解青铜是当时整个地中海东部地区需求巨大的重要商品。

The explosion was so powerful that it wrecked Santorini's ancient city of Akrotiri and dealt a fatal blow to the seafaring Minoan civilization, which had settled on the island at the time.

这场爆炸威力巨大，以至于摧毁了圣托里尼古城阿克罗蒂里，并对定居岛上的海洋明斯王国造成致命打击。

For the same reason, we can be sure that the Linear B syllabary of Mycenaean Greece had been adapted by around 1400 B.C.from the Linear A syllabary of Minoan Crete.

出于同样的原因，我们可以肯定，希腊迈锡尼的线性 B 音表在公元前 1400 年左右就已经从克里特岛斯的线性 A 音表改编而来。

CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'SMOTHER ONJULY3, 1908, ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THEancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, chanced upon one of the most remarkable objects in the history of technology.

第十三章 必要性窒息 1908 年 7 月 3 日，考古学家在克里特岛费斯托斯挖掘古代斯宫殿时，偶然发现了技术史上最引人注目的物品之一。

From Greece: Archaeologists uncovered gold, jewels and beads in a large building on the now uninhabited Minoan island of Chrysi, a location that about 3,500 years ago was devoted to making purple dye from sea snails called Murex.

来自希腊：考古学家在现在无人居住的克里西斯岛上的一座大型建筑中发现了黄金、珠宝和珠子，大约 3500 年前，这里专门用于从名为 Murex 的海蜗牛中制造紫色染料。