Been thinking about this a lot lately after going down a rabbit hole on Minoan trade routes. The standard line is they were mainly a Mediterranean/Aegean civilisation but some of the iconography doesn't quite add up to me. There are motifs that show up in Minoan art that look suspiciously similar to things found in the Indus Valley - is that just coincidence or is there something there?
Also the whole collapse around 1450 BC is still genuinely mysterious isn't it. What if outside contact, maybe with peoples we haven't properly identified yet, played a role in that?
I know this edges into speculative territory but honestly that's why I come here. Has anyone looked into whether there's any credible fringe research on this, not just the mainstream archaeological consensus? Curious what people think, especially anyone who's looked at the Linear A language angle because that script being undeciphered still feels like a massive missing piece.