Absolutely. If we can read their script, and they wrote a history, we can read that history. Without, we are reduced to relying on archaeology. We can read his

Absolutely. If we can read their script, and they wrote a history, we can read that history. Without, we are reduced to relying on archaeology. We can read historical texts from Egypt and Mesopotamia from the time the Minoans , er, "flourished". In exactly that sense they are not prehistoric. I think Egyptians mentioned them. (It seems odd if Egyptians did not mention Santorini blowing up and wiping them out, but maybe they did. Somebody must have mentioned "Thera".)