alt Hacker NewsThey are magnificent! I'd guess their civilization was influenced by the Ancient Near East as well as Old Europe. Hybrid creatures, women flanked by big cats, priestly figures holding serpents, all Minoan iconography with corrolaries in Egypy and the Levant. How I wish we had their myths, their histories.
There was definitely trade & cultural exchange between the Minoans and Egypt. How much there was is not clear, but there definitely was some.