The Excavation of Crete in the 20th Century

At that time, crete was still under ottoman rule. The population on the island of crete was mostly christian, orthodox, ethnic greeks. They wanted to join the kingdom of greece - but were afraid their best finds would end up in constantinople. So they put a stop to minos calocerinos excavations. But hed found enough there to attract thei rest of schlimann. Schlimann wanted to excavate a cnossance and other people. Eventually it was sir arthur evans who managed to acquire the land, get permit to excavate. By that time, by 19 hundred, the political situation on cr