Knossos
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Labyrinth of Kannossos
Archaeologists still debate what the palace was and indeed whether it was a palace at all, or whether it was really a place for making things and then trading them into the Eastern Mediterranean. A lot of the labyrinthine corridors are actually storage magazines with these huge ceramic jars called pithoi which we used to store olive oil or perhaps grain or some agricultural product. But even better than that, Arthur Evans found in one part of the palace a place where the drainage system had been opened up and there was a cubicle on top of it. So this seemed to be Europe's first flushing toilet found in the domestic court with the palace.
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