Knossos
The Ancients
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The Bronze Age Palace in Athens
The walls were built of very large blocks which were called Cyclopean in this period. Early on they had a sense that it was certainly pre-Greek, but when they started to excavate they found pottery of a type which had already been found in Egypt. And as they started uncovering more of this great palace, what were these things, these decorations that they found? They discovered on so many of the walls of this massive Bronze Age building.
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