Knossos
The Ancients
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The Double Axe at Knossos
Andrew brought out a small clay coloured cup likewise found at Knossos but crafted several centuries later in around 1600 BC. It's so fascinating about this cup is that it has a strange double-ac symbol painted on it. Arthur Evans kept finding these he looked at words which might have been used to describe the double axe in antiquity. He came up with this idea that labyrinth meant something like house of the double axe and so when he found double axes at KnossOS he said well this proves that this place is the labyrinth because the people who lived there or who party there called it the house of thedouble axe.
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