Forward: The Minoans were mostly part of Isreal. Two modern
authors who have examined the Minoan culture
are Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe. Their
books The Warriors
and the Bankers and The Knights
Templar Revealed, furnish us with a new
understanding of Cretan or Minoan
civilization that so closely resembles that
of the
ancient Irish. Regrettably, like so many researchers
throughout the ages, Butler and Dafoe do not
consider anything but the East to West
transit of the elements of civilization.
That the reverse situation could have
occurred is, alas, a question that does not enter their minds
even though their own discoveries, when seen
from the correct perspective, strongly
support the theory. Some of their key
discoveries regarding the Cretans and the
world's powerful secret societies,
considerably strengthen our own controversial
theories regarding the
importance of the Irish Druids (the Arya) in
world history. (source)
A Minoan fresco of children boxing: New DNA analysis has debunked the theory that the Minoans were refugees from North Africa
DNA analysis has debunked the
longstanding theory that the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago
established Europe's first advanced Bronze Age culture, were from
Africa. The Minoan
civilisation arose on the Mediterranean island of Crete in approximately
the 27th century BC and flourished for 12 centuries until the 15th
century BC.
But the culture
was lost until British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans unearthed its
remains on Crete in 1900, where he found vestiges of a civilisation he
believed was formed by refugees from northern Egypt. Modern archaeologists have cast doubt
on that version of events, and now DNA tests of Minoan remains suggests
they were descended from ancient farmers who settled the islands
thousands of years earlier. These people, it is believed, are from the same stock that came from the East to populate the rest of Europe.
Evans
set to work on Crete in 1900 with a team of archaeologists soon after
the island was liberated from the yoke of the Ottoman empire, almost
immediately unearthing a great palace. He
named the civilisation he discovered after the legendary Greek king
Minos and, based on likenesses between Minoan artifacts and those from
Egypt and Libya, proposed that its founders migrated into the area from
North Africa.
Since then,
other archaeologists have suggested that the Minoans may have come from
other regions, possibly Turkey, the Balkans, or the Middle East. But
now a joint U.S. and Greek team has made a mitochondrial DNA analysis of
Minoan skeletal remains to determine the likely ancestors of the ancient
people.
Mitochondria, the
energy powerhouses of cells, contain their own DNA, or genetic code, and
because mitochondrial DNA is passed down from mothers to their children
via the human egg, it contains information about maternal ancestry.
