Who were the Minoans' neighbors?

Today's post over at the Minoan Path Blog is a bit of a history lesson. Sometimes it's hard to get our minds around ancient civilizations and their timelines - after all, they all happened so long ago, what does it matter whether one was earlier than another? Well, it does matter, because our assumptions about those ancient cultures color our views of them, and not always in accurate ways.

So click on over to the blog post with this link:

Who were the Minoans' neighbors?

You just might be surprised how many of those ancient civilizations - Egypt, Sumer, Crete, Babylon - thrived at the same time and even had contact with each other.