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The Knossos Palace that is
visible today
was partially rebuilt by Sir Arthur Evans during the first half of the
twentieth century. The palace was destroyed around 1375 B.C.E. The palace is a maze
of storage rooms and residential quarter surrounding a central courtyard.
Much of the stored goods was used for trade. Leading from the
palace are a network of roads that extend in all directions
across the island. Internal trade must have been extensive.
Evans was not the first to develop an interest in Knossos, Heinrich
Schliemann wanted to dig at a site where many believed the palace was located,. but political and economic circumstances made it
impossible. While Schliemann was excavating at Mycenae, a Greek Minos Kalokairinos, identified
the site on the hill of Kephala where he found a storeroom of a
large building
At the same time that Evans was working
at Knossos, other archaeologist excavated Cretan Minoan sites--Vasiliki, Mytros, Phaistos,
Ayia Triadha, Zakros, Malia, and Gournia. |
