Knossos
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Labyrinth of Minos
Arthur Evans excavated the palace of Minos at Knossos on Crete in 1904. The three and a half thousand year old building is thought to have had hundreds of different rooms. It has this almost labyrinthine plan so you can see how Arthur Evans wanted to name some of these rooms. Here for instance you have the all of the colonnades or even the Queen's Megaron here which he thought that the Queen and her court sons hung out.
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