Marc Van De Mieroop (PhD Yale 1983) is a professor (full professor 1996) of Ancient Near Eastern history at Columbia University.

Sir Arthur John Evans (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept ofMinoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout eastern Mediterranean. Evans was the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing.

Nanno Marinatos is professor of classics at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the daughter of the archeologist Spyridon Marininatos and, like her father, has worked for a very long time on the subject of Minoan culture.

Marija Gimbutas, ”The Godesses and Gods of Old Europe”

Othmar Keel

Stylianos Alexiou

Christoph Uehlinger

Fiedrich Matz

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Martti Nissinen „Kindom of Mari“

prophetic texts of Mari ­ King Zimrilim 1774-1760

James Mellart, 1967

Harald Haarmann, Universalgeschichte der Schrift, Frankfurt, 1990

Mircea Eliade