In these linked modules the Palace Civilisations of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece provide the only European examples of Bronze Age urban societies. Their achievements in architecture, administration and technology foreshadow those of Classical Greece by over a 1000 years. In turn Crete and mainland Greece were leaders in a pattern of trade and exchange which extended from the Nile valley and the Black Sea to Sicily and Sardinia. In Semester II, lectures and seminars will examine a range of aspectsof Minoan and Mycenaean civilisation in depth, including architecture, burial practices, linear B archives, cult, metalworking, trade.