Knossos
The Ancients
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The Golden Age of Kannosse
The palace was built in around 1900 to BC. What preceded it was a very long period of occupation because the mound on which the palace sits is a Neolithic tell which starts much earlier in around 7000 BC. So it had already been an important place for 5,000 years for the time the palace was built and actually the palace is quite short lived It lasts for about 600 years before it's destroyed by fire in around 1350 BC. Each time it's rebuilt it becomes grandeur and grandeur but then one of the fascinating things about the palace is once it's destroyed in 1350 BC it's never really reoccupied as a religious site or a sanctuary.
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