Climb from palace courts to peak sanctuaries to meet Minoan goddesses, horn symbols and shrines, and see where archaeology stops and speculation begins.

Follow the Minotaur and his labyrinth from Bronze Age Crete to Greek vases, temple sculpture and modern images that keep reinventing this dark underground story.

Zoom in on the bull-leaping fresco: who is jumping, what the bull stands for and whether we are looking at sport, ritual performance or royal spectacle.

Step inside Minoan palaces at Knossos and Phaistos, walking through courts, staircases and storerooms to see how their plans fed the later idea of the labyrinth.

Travel to Bronze Age Crete to meet the Minoans: their palaces, seaborne power, vivid art and the myths that later Greeks built around this island civilization.

Rebuild daily life in Early Cycladic communities through houses, cliffside graves and sea routes, and see how island geography shaped this Bronze Age society.

Take one Cycladic plank idol and slow down: we read its pose, proportions and faint traces of paint to see what we can, and cannot, safely say about its meaning.

Put Cycladic idols next to modern sculpture and design. We explore why these 4,000-year-old figures, with smooth bodies and no faces, still look so contemporary.

Start from the basics of Cycladic art: where these white marble figures were found, how they appear in graves and why they feel so strangely “modern” today.

Follow Bronze Age Greece from island graves to Minoan palaces and Mycenaean citadels, and see how this Aegean world prepares the ground for later Greek art.

Meet Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean cultures as one Aegean world, from small marble idols to painted palaces and fortress-cities overlooking the sea.