Knossos
The Ancients
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The Labyrinth of Kannosse
Archaeologists still debate over what the palace was and indeed whether it was a palace at all. A lot of the labyrinthine corridors are actually storage magazines with these huge ceramic jars called pithoy, 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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