In the following short list will be found the volumes on the Minoan and MycenÆan civilizations which are most accessible to the ordinary reader:

Annual of the British School at Athens, vols. vi.- . (Reports of excavations by Evans, Hogarth, and others, and many articles of interest on the results of discovery. Well illustrated.)

Journal of Hellenic Studies, vols. xx.- . (Articles by Evans, Hall, Mackenzie, Rouse, and others. Admirable illustrations.)

BROWNE, H.: Homeric Study. (Relations of Homeric and Minoan civilizations).

BURROWS, R. M.: The Discoveries in Crete. (An able discussion of the results of excavations).

EVANS, A. J.: Cretan Pictograms and Pre-Phoenician Script. (Dr. Evans's earlier volume on the Minoan writing.) Essai de Classification des Époques de la Civilisation Minoenne. (Short summary of the Minoan periods.) Mycoenean Tree and Pillar Cult. (Reprint from Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. xxi.) Prehistoric Tombs of Knossos. (Isopata, etc.). Scripta Minoa. (Latest and fullest discussion of Minoan script.) Articles in the Times newspaper and the Monthly Review.

HALL, E. H.: The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age.

HALL, H. R.: Egypt and Western Asia. (Relations of Crete and Egypt.) The Oldest Civilization of Greece. (Deals with MycenÆan discoveries up to 1901.) Various articles in the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical ArchÆology, the Journal of Hellenic Studies, etc.

HARRISON, J. E.: Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. The Religion of Ancient Greece.

HAWES, C. H. and H.: Crete the Forerunner of Greece. (Concise and interesting manual.)

HAWES, H. B.: Gournia, Vasiliki, and other Prehistoric Sites on the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete.

HOGARTH, D. G.: Authority and Archoeology; (Contains summary of earlier MycenÆan discoveries.) Ionia and the East. (Relations of Oriental and early Greek civilizations.) Articles in Cornhill Magazine and Fortnightly Review.

LANG, A.: Homer and his Age.

MOSSO, A.: The Palaces of Crete and their Builders. (Chiefly useful for its numerous illustrations.)

MURRAY, G.: The Rise of the Greek Epic. (Exceedingly vivid and suggestive.)

RIDGEWAY, W.: The Early Age of Greece.

SCHUCHHARDT, C.: Schliemann's Excavations. (Useful summary of the work of Schliemann, translated by E. Sellers.)

SEAGER, R. B.: Excavations on the Island of Pseira, Crete. Philadelphia, 1910. (Finely illustrated.)

TSOUNTAS AND MANATT: The MycenÆan Age.

For the chronology of Ancient Egypt see—

BREASTED, H.: History of Egypt. (1906. Abridged issue, 1908.)

PETRIE, W. M. F.: History of Egypt, vols. i.-iii. Researches in Sinai.

For the topography of Crete, Pashley's Travels in Crete and Spratt's Travels and Researches in Crete will still be found interesting and useful, though published in 1837 and 1865 respectively. For the history of the island in mediÆval and modern times A Short Popular History of Crete, by J. H. Freese, may be consulted.

AntiquitÉs CrÉtoises, by G. Maraghiannis, Candia, Crete, gives fifty excellent plates of Minoan relics, chiefly from PhÆstos and Hagia Triada, with a short introduction by Signor Pernier, of the Italian ArchÆological Mission.