Arthur Evans, the archaeologist who excavated the ancient Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete, exported artifacts he discovered back to Britain.
A labyrinth of massive columns and beautiful frescoes, the Palace of Knossos is a testament to the sophistication of the Minoan civilization that disappeared sometime in the 14th century. According to ...
Crete is a myth-stical island (see what I did there?) in Greece where gods were born, empires came and went, and lunch can ...
The world's most glorious monument to fakery, outshining even Las Vegas and the Disney archipelago, is Knossos, the Greek site containing the legendary Palace of Minos. There are real ruins at this ...
The discovery of the Snake Goddess made researchers focus on the mysterious religion of Minoan Crete and its connection of ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper concentrates on the contacts between Knossos and the Pediada during the Old and New Palace periods. The distribution and topography ...
ARCHAEOLOGY is an inexact science, as Sir Arthur Evans, a flamboyant early practitioner, knew. However painstaking the digging process, an excavator can always promote an extravagant theory under the ...