BBC Focus Magazine

[Healerman]

Excavations among what many scholars consider to be the world's oldest monumental buildings on the island of Malta continue to unveil surprises and raise new questions about the significance of these megalithic structures and the people who built them. Not least is the latest find - a small but rare, crescent-moon shaped agate stone featuring a 13th-century B.C.E. cuneiform inscription, the likes of which would normally be found much farther east in Mesopotamia.

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/de ... d-of-malta

Malta has been recognised as a melting pot of human cultures for many years, but it seems to just get better and better.

[Liam Sheppard]

Is that where the Minoan civilization were? or was that Crete!?

[Healerman]

Based in Crete, but they got about a bit.

[Shadowwolf]

Crete as mentioned, but Malta is relatively nearby so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they or trade could have brought some level of contact.