Interesting story. This is the first meaningful attempt to explore aerodynamics. It looks like the purpose may not have been for pure scientific curiosity, but rather to gain a military advantage, increased range over an arrow. The inventor was a very general (reappointed many times because he won battles for the state). None the less it is interesting and this method is used to this day, catapults are used to accelerate fighters to a take-off speed in the limited length on an aircraft carrier, kids learn of rocketry using pressurised coke bottles.
Those interest in ancient flight, should look at the flying monk (circa 1000AD) Eilmer of Malmesbury, a Turk accredited with a much better controlled flight 400 years before this in Spain, but there are no substantial records to confirm this. The Chinese had rockets around this time and the first propeller (spinning top – kids toy). There are also accounts of adepts (masters of simplicity) that flew and there is a remarkable passage of how to build a glider. The emperors were trying to learn how to do it, using man lifting kites (prisoners were test pilots, most did not survive). SO there may be some truth in the legion of Daedalus and Icarus (a tale also informing of the danger of invention, the world is better off without some things). I just wonder if they did get a basic glider flying. They had the materials to do it. They imported flax (linen), from Egypt, they had the best weaves in the world producing fine cloth, actually Aero linen was used for the first aircraft, the wax would have been to seal the cloth. Beams at the leading and trailing edge and stabilisers at the back and off you go from the side of a hill. This is what the Chinese describe, Jujube is basically balsa wood. The dragons, oxen, snakes could be referring to planform areas (likely) or kite types, they are not likely to be literally skins. Humans have been wanting to fly for a long time. Just imagine what a population would think of those that could, Gods. By the way, Daedalus is unlikely to refer to one person, he just invented too much stuff, it is more likely to be a Minoan rank, the equivalent of chief engineer, that built buildings, produced fine art pieces, developed technology and engineering methods (metallurgy, ships, chariots etc).
Interestingly the tail of Talos, might be based on an actual technology (not dissimilar to the steam powered projectile described) that could not be explained by the Greeks. There is a weird casting of a large (5m length) cylinder with operators on it. No-one knows what it is, it looks like a huge boiler, the Minoans had hot water going to palace buildings as well as underfoot heating, aqueducts and sewers and water pipes. I just wonder if they had steam (the device is sealed and appears to have controls), if so they could have used it for a piston to hurl rocks at approaching ships (possibly further than a catapult), which is described in quite a few stories. Daedalus is accredited with automatons (basic robots), but these are more likely to be moving statues, but he is accredited as the maker of an automatic remotely controlled door that opened using a fire (badly explained, this suggest steam and valves, a fire alone will not do it). Historians simply didn’t have the language to explain technology. The greek mythology is actually focused around the Islands, controlled by the Minoans and I suspect they had an asymmetric trading network, they didn’t let ships with the wrong flag enter their ports, they didn’t need heavy fortification for their palaces either, it suggests they could intercept any vessel or fleet before it reached their ports and the mythology suggests they launched bolts at approaching ships using machines, to keep them away and maintain their own trading advantage, hub with access to all the worlds useful commodities. Zeus/Athena(in particular) had thunder bolts, now where was Zeus born and where did he die – yes he did die, there was a grave, he was just a leader, but if you had this power maybe you would be perceived as a god by other nations, the Minoans didn’t treat him as one, just a respected leader). Talos circling Crete three times a day, could actually mean that the entire island was protected and was under the control of the three main centres (east – sun rise (venus), west sunset and moon goddess (mistress of animals – Athena type) and centre Knossos mother goddess (Hera) and the priestess keeping an eye on all the shipping lanes! The snakes are probably referring to the Draco and pole star, it looks like they understood a lot about the celestial bodies, time and seasons (they had an advanced calendar probably learned from the Babylonians based on humanising the sun and moon cycles). The snake Draco rotates around the earths axis, handy if you need to navigate. The iconography and artefacts support this. The peak sanctuaries are all at elevated positions with great visibility over the oceans. A double axes can signal over significant distance to the operators of catapults to lay down fire and direct ships to intercept. A hand mirror can be seen from about 50kms for example (the axe surface is much larger and substantially flats, this distance is enough to signal another island that also had peak sanctuaries, these could explain how they ruled the seas and directed the navy), 200m elevation (many of the peak sanctuaries are higher) gives you about this range to the horizon. The double axe is misunderstood, it can be used for both signalling and measurement of angles (including navigation) – they all have incremented marks on them, they were studying the stars and looking after their coastal approaches as well, these were mass produced items, there are even portable ones with eyelets at the end, they are made from gold, silver and copper, all highly reflective, attach a string, spin, it reflects the sunlight and casts a shadow. Mark the length throughout the day, at the shortest length, this is mid day 12.00 exactly. The shadow cast points directly North, the length tells you your latitude, the larger axes may use a month offset to take account of the earth axis but I don’t fully understand this yet. Now how big was their trade network, Egypt, Asia, to the pillars of Hercules and beyond, even up to Spain and the Cornwall to get tin (there are graves in Scottish border (trade route to the highlands and islands) with stone covered in axes – to cast on the inside and linear a found at a Scandinavian silver mine), you need to be able to navigate to do this distance! The only other tin is in Afghanistan, even further and yes they also traded with them too, they crafted Lapis Lazuli that only comes from this part of the world, they controlled all the key commodities, processed them into even higher value items, weapons, the finest cloth, the most beautiful furniture, jewellery and art and exported this to those with other commodities they needed. If you look at the art, the double axes are shown in the context of so called bull horns of consecration, duh, the bulls horns are regularly positioned on the buildings which all cast a shadow to an axe in the court yard, count the horns shadows to the axe, you know the time of day. Thats my take anyway for debate. Sorry a bit wordy, going a bit of topic and got carried away, I work on flight/propulsion systems, solar power and like my technology, ancient or modern.

Sounds familiar, Celtic groups are paying this close attention and support the referendum.

The legend of the eagle and the serpent:
in the past, the eagle was said (or interpreted) as devouring a snake. Therefore, the snake should have been dead already.
However, the modern representations, such as in the mexican coat of arms, show a defiant snake, ALIVE, with the clear intention of about to strike at the head of the eagle. This is wrong: it shows that the evil, represented by the snake (and resurrected by the masons, those who betrayed the King of Spain and who took the power) is strong and possibly could come victorious over the eagle, which normally represents the good.
Even if you do not believe it, you should be aware of the occult symbolisms that are present in emblems, coat of arms, flags, and signs, of people, places, countries, companies, etc.; all of them have all a meaning, most of the time an occult meaning, which is really luciferian, satanist and anti-Christian.

I'm Catalan and I must say that I'm frankly frustrated and dissapointed by all the lies and half truth written in this article.

Almost every point is false, and rest only tell a fraction of the truth. I was expecting more seriousness from a website that allegedly is strong in history issues.

Please Ms April, next time do your homework and research, don't do the ugly job for the independentists thugs.

Yes it is as you said !
Some time ago before the Roman Imperium period, in the time of Celtic multiple migrations Europe was much more united and commonly different than it was since the multi-culti mish-mash introduced by Roman imperium as today the multiculti of EU/EP/Bruxelles ! That time Romanian teritory population was something different than todays Turkish-Tartar-Tzigani GMO hybrid.
Think only at manele the Turkish name for a Turanic cacophonia which ha snothing to do with the music
If you listen to the songs and music of Michel Flately River Dance etc , you hear the music from Transilvania and Maramures.
That Europe doesn't exist anymore !

Simple answer - in bits, then reassembled. Not possible with 250 ton granite blocks.

only found 1! odd. Petty seems an odd choice of words? translation problem?

Frankly, I'm surprized that ANY old iron or steel turns up. The stuff was very hard to make and too valuable not to re-cycle. Want to find iron-age iron? Try looking at the barrels of Napoleonic muskets or the tires of 18th century wagons. They both probably contained small amounts of recycled iron age or medieval iron.

The folding chair was invented by Daedalus, Minoan. The foot scrolling is interesting as it is of a similar design to another Minoan artefact, a three-legged table, reproduced by plaster cast impression at Akrotiri, Thera, (Santorini). This artefact is jaw dropping too, it shows a level of craft similar to Chippendale. It is known that the Minoans exported to Egypt and traded works of daidala - finely crafted item (pottery, jewellery, textiles, metalwork including weapons) for gold and papyrus.