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Knossos culture
Knossos culture The culture based around the principal city of Minoan Crete, near the port of Heraklion. The area was occupied from neolithic times until
c.1200 BC. Excavations by Sir Arthur Evans from 1900 onwards revealed remains of a luxurious and spectacular decorated complex of buildings which he named the Palace of Minos, with frescoes of landscapes, animal life, and the sport of bull-leaping. In
c.1450 BC Crete was overrun by the Mycenaeans, but the palace was not finally destroyed until the 14th century or early 13th century BC, possibly by an earthquake. The city was destroyed by the Romans in 68–67 BC.
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Knossos; the little palace.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 512 words
; 0904887502 Knossos; the little palace. Hatzaki, Eleni M. British...Supplementary; v.38 DF212 The Little Palace at Knossos is the largest house yet found within the Bronze Age town of Knossos in Greece and has been explored in archaeological...
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THE MANY LIVES OF AMAZING KNOSSOS.(Crete)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the bead shaped like a bull's head? Knossos must have seemed eternal to the people...almost a millennium, and the community of Knossos dates back even further. It was the Stone...settlement in the Aegean Sea region. Life at Knossos (and ancient Crete in general) has been...
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Diversity in diversification: a Cretan caseload.("Knossos: Palace, City, State")("Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies, vol.2")("Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Crete: The Vrokastro Regional Survey Project, Sites and Pottery, vol.3")("The Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete")("Mochlos IA, Period III, Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast : The Artisans' Quarter and the Farmhouse at Chalinomouri. The sites ")("Mochlos IC, Period III, Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast: the Artisan's Quarter and the farmhouse at Chalinomouri. The Small Finds")(Book review)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...ELENI HATZAKI & ADONIS VASILAKIS (ed.). Knossos: Palace, City, State (British School at Athens Studies...decades, leading to a diversity of new prospects. Knossos Knossos: Palace, City, State, represents the proceedings...
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AMATEUR NATURALIST From Troy to Knossos, great cities are built by industrious and social animals
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 8/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...strange a place as the ancient Greek city of Knossos must have been. Thousands of black field...reach even than the daily life of ancient Knossos. And yet, somehow it's just as close. At Knossos, there was no electricity, no gasoline...
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Cracking the knossos code
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/25/2002; ; 700+ words
; Cracking the Knossos code Sara Paton THE MAN WHO DECIPHERED...his excavation of the Palace of Minos at Knossos in Crete. The tablets inscribed in Linear...leap: guessing that certain words in the Knossos tablets might be place names, he substituted...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Uncovering secrets of the Minotaur; "Electronic instruments that probe for buried structures suggest contours that could approach the size of the famed palace at Knossos, about 60 miles to the west, said to be the seat of Minos and his mythical Minotaur".(News)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 3/30/2001; 700+ words
; ...had a second palace, similar to that at Knossos, which attracts thousands of tourists...approach the size of the famed palace at Knossos, about 60 miles to the west, said to...not centralised under the authority of Knossos. Even more intriguing to the experts...
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Greece.(Knossos and airport on Crete to be linked by tram lines)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Mass Transit; 9/1/2000; 476 words
; Two tram routes are slated to be built in Crete, Greece; one to the Knossos archaeological site and another from the city to the airport.
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Knossos; palace, city, state; proceedings. (CD-ROM included).(GREAT BRITAIN, EUROPE, BALKANS, FORMER USSR)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 551 words
; DF221 0-904887-45-6 Knossos; palace, city, state; proceedings. (CD...centenary of Sir Arthur Evans's excavation at Knossos. The intent of the conference was to reexamine Knossos through time and in wider contexts, and the...
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A history mystery: the bull leapers of Knossos.
Magazine article from: Hopscotch; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...bull leaper. Scenes of bull leaping have been found on wall paintings, vases, and engraved seals throughout the palace of Knossos on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea. Are the scenes decorative or an artistic representation of something that...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Making merry about modernity; Greek archaeology.(Sir Arthur Evans's romantic ideas about the Minoans)(Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/16/2009; 700+ words
; ...started to unearth a prehistoric mound at Knossos in Crete at the turn of the 20th century...goddess. Among those who swallowed the Knossos myth were Sigmund Freud, James Joyce...stylish and original cultural history of Knossos, which slots Evans and the Minoans into...
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Knossos
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Knossos Ancient palace complex in n Crete, 6.4km (4mi...nobles. The complex also contains many frescos. Knossos dominated Crete c. 1500 bc but the palace was...http://www.daedalus.gr/DAEI/THEME/Knossos.htm
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Knossos culture
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Knossos culture The culture based around the principal city of Minoan Crete, near the port of Heraklion. The area was occupied from neolithic...
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Minoan civilization
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Minoan period the great palaces appeared at Knossos and Phaestus; a pictographic script...and possibly an invasion, destroyed Knossos, but the palace was rebuilt. During...evidence of a new script (Linear B) at Knossos, which argues the presence of Mycenaean...
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Water works, Ancient
Book article from: Water:Science and Issues
Water works, Ancient Knossos, approximately 5 kilometers (3 miles...cities of the Aegean and of Europe. Knossos was first inhabited shortly after 6000...water supply and drainage systems of Knossos were most interesting. An aqueduct...
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Mycenaean civilization
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Mediterranean. After the violent destruction of Knossos c.1400 BC, Mycenae achieved supremacy...clay tablets from Pylos, Mycenae, and Knossos, appears to be a form of archaic Greek...of this script, known as Linear B, at Knossos c.1500 BC indicates that Mycenaean Greeks...
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