The Minoans were primarily a mercantile people engaged in overseas trade. Their culture, from 1700 BCE onward, shows a high degree of organization. The Minoan trade in saffron, the stigma of a mutated crocus which originated in the Aegean basin as a natural chromosome mutation,
Akrotiri is a Minoan Bronze Age settlement situated on the Greek island of Santorini (classically and more recently referred to as Thera), in the southern Aegean Sea.
The destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 has been preserved in ancient times by an eye witness account, namely that of Pliny the Younger.
Santorini in the Bronze Age: A society fed on prosperity and pleasure, enjoying a cosmopolitan life and the riches of maritime trade, is reflected in the eating habits of its members.
Akrotiri, the remains or a prehistoric city that was buried under the ash and pumice stone after a very strong volcanic eruption on 1600 b.c Akrotiri not only remained buried for almost 4000 years, but at the same time it remained protected and preserved under